What you need is individual attention and feedback, problem-solving and writing workouts that are customized to your particular script from a professional with many years experience as a script consultant and mentor.

I'm concerned with aspects of your script that can shape your individual voice and help you realise your unique creative vision.

With so many stunningly innovative movie scripts now blowing up the rule book, it's high time for scriptwriting advice to catch up.

The reality is, script gurus and analysts are often woefully out of sync with today's movie marketplace.

Think of movies like Pulp Fiction, No Country For Old Men, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Memento, Fight Club, Talk To Her.

These films are some of the most excitingly orginal examples of unique screenwriting. And it's scripts like these that are consistently winning the Best Screenplay Awards, not just at Cannes and Venice, but in Hollywood.

99% of the 50,000 or so scripts that get sent out every year are rejected. What makes that remaining one per cent get developed?

Follow the one-size-fits-all template and all you get are scripts that are formulaic and forgettable and never get sold.

Producers want extremely well-crafted scripts that are inventive and written with cinematic passion.

It's a tall order and that's why in these days of such a competitive market there is absolutely no point in sending out a script that hasn't been professionally assessed.

But any script consultant who gives outdated guidance isn't going to help very much in making your script one of originality and cinematic power.

Having your work evaluated as a complete novice is a daunting prospect, however, Pauline offered encouragement and praise while giving sound advice on how to improve and move forward with my work. The improvements made and encouragement given, gave me the confidence to pursue the avenue of writing as a potential career and as a result I have know been accepted on a full time MA course in creative writing. F.B. Scotland.

Any script consultant who uses the 'universal' story paradigm and structure rules isn't going to be able to give a screenwriter much help in creating the kind of original, inventive screenplays the industry is desperately looking for.

It's not the scripts that slavishly follow the scriptwriting rule books that get producers excited. It's the ones that are unique. They're looking for scripts with a difference, not poor imitations.

The reason I know this? Because it's what all the producers and agents I know tell me.

Screenwriters like Tarantino, Kauffman, Almodovar and the Coen Brothers don't follow any of the 'definitive sciptwriting bibles' that often seem to be out to strangle innovation and the writer's voice.

If you're serious about writing distinctive scripts, you won't want to either.

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I've read hundreds of screenplays in my work preparing script coverage as an industry reader, providing script reports as a screenplay consultant and mentor helping screenwriters develop their careers, and in teaching screenwriting courses.

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Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. Screenwriters/Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen. Mike Zoss Productions. Scott Rudin Productions Paramount Vantage. Miramax.
Guy Pearce in Memento. Screenwriter/Director: Christopher Nolan. Newmarket Capital. Summit Entertainment.
John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction. Screenwriter/Director: Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart. Jersey Films. Miramax Films.
Nicolas Cage and Brian Cox in Adaptation. Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman. Director: Spike Jonze. Beverly Detroit. Clinica Estetico. Good Machine. Intermedia. Magnet Productions. Propaganda Films. Sony Pictures Entertainment Screen Gems. Columbia Pictures.
Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz. On the set of Volver. Screenwriter/Director: Pedro Almodovar. Canal+ España. Sony Pictures Classics.
Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Screenwriter: Jim Uhls. Director: David Fincher. Art Linson Productions. Fox 2000.

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