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Critique A Screenplay's First Ten Pages Against Industry Norms
You have ten pages that need to convince a stranger to keep reading, and no way to know if they do that job. This checks them against the standards a professional reader actually applies: clarity, format discipline, pacing. For writers about to submit to competitions, agents, or contests and wanting one honest pass first.
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You have the first ten pages of a screenplay: {FIRST_TEN_PAGES}. These pages typically decide whether a reader continues.
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**Critique against standard first-ten-pages expectations:**
1. Assess whether the protagonist and genre are clear by page 3
2. Assess formatting discipline: slugs, action line length, white space
3. Identify any info dump or scene that does not earn its place
4. Score readiness on a scale of 1 to 10 with the single biggest fix needed
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- Section-by-section critique (protagonist clarity, format, pacing, dump risk)
- A readiness score and the one change that would help most
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