The 10-Page Torture Test:
Perfecting your screenplay's first ten pages
Welcome to the Ten-Page Torture Test site.
This website wants to chew up and spit out your screenplay's first ten pages.
It's not pretty.
There will be blood.
A good story isn't enough.
You
must tell it well on the page.
Everybody knows the first ten are crucial.
Ten pages to turn your reader into a page-turning fiend.
Spelling mistakes, poor grammar, ambiguity, confused thoughts, unnecessary words, weak words...
These poison your pages and slow down your reader.
To perfect the story machine, writers must rebuild and tune their sentences.
Obsessively searching for the best words to tell your story.
That's what we do here.
I hope you and I help each other to be better writers.
Best wishes,
Pitchpatch
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