The best part about getting coverage notes for your screenplay is that you see it with fresh eyes.
Getting a readers notes is an invaluable tool that you will never regret. It's amazing all the things that I hadn't seen before. Things that, after months of working on it, became so dependable. I had missed some actual errors. Things that I had put in for convenience instead of need felt forced when read by someone else.
Remembering that your audience isn't privy to all the back story in your mind means making sure the important things get put in. Whether it be through dialogue or subtext, if it's part of what makes your character who they are, the audience needs that information. Likewise, if you give too much, it bogs the story down with too much unnecessary baggage.
That is what makes coverage and editing so valuable to a writer, because sometimes it takes someone else to say - I don't get it, what is the purpose of this? Or, great job getting that across.
You need to discover what is working and what's not and if what you are trying to say is being said, otherwise you will just get rejection after rejection when it comes to the crunch.
So, keep at it, don't give up. Remember, no-one on this earth can say what you have to say the way you can.
Happy writing ;)
Emma
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