It’s the holidays and you’ve just finished writing your script. You feel like you’re ready to start shopping it around to studios and agencies, but there are a couple of reasons to get professional coverage first.

Everyone is distracted

Executives and agents are wrapping up their years along with wrapping their presents, and there are too many distractions for them to properly evaluate a script. Trust me, I saw this during my time reading for studios. There’s too much going on in the office and script submisssions are viewed as more of a distraction than an opportunity.

Everyone is out of money

It’s the end of the year, and all that money that studios had in January and July and September has been spent on other projects, and day to day running of the studio. No one wants to make a big purchase at the end of the year, and that means your script is more likely to be passed on.

You can use the extra time to use the coverage notes to your advantage and further polish your script

Let’s say you submit your script to a professional service this week. You’ll get your notes by the weekend or early next week, and you’ll have four weeks to address the notes before the end of the year. Even if you submit your script to a reader at some point over the next two weeks, you’ll still have multiple weeks to address the reader’s notes. That will make your script better and give you a better shot of getting it sold or picking up an agent.

Overall, December is the worst month of the year to submit a script to a studio or an agency

For all of the reasons above, December is a bad month to submit a script to someone that you’d like to give you something for it. Everyone is distracted and no one has money. Why not take that time and make sure that you have a script that you’re proud of and that has given you the best chance for success? Getting professional quality coverage notes now gives you time to injest the notes and use them to polish you script. Then, when January rolls around in a few weeks, you have a script that’s as good as it can be and gives you the best opportunity to sell the script or get an agent.

Monument Script Services can provide you with those notes.

Your script will get a professional evaluation, which will give you the opportunity to take the month of December and make your script shine so that it will be impossible to ignore in the New Year. Check the link below to see the types of services we offer.

http://monumentscripts.com/service/