DOS & DON'TS
OF NOTES
You've submitted your draft and you're
feeling good. Then come the notes.
Lots and lots of notes, some lengthy, some
absurdly brief…and the bubble bursts.
opposite, clockwise from top left: Raj Brueggemann; G. Melissa Graziano-Humphrey;
Ashley Long; and Lauren Andrews. photography by Tim Sullens.
FRANCISCO PAREDES, A
WRITER ON DISNEY'S MUPPET
BABIES RECALLS GETTING
BACK A SCRIPT HE HAD
SUBMITTED. THE EVALUATOR
INCLUDED A SINGLE MARK
AND, NO, UNFORTUNATELY
IT WASN'T "LOVE IT. DON'T
CHANGE A THING."
"THE PERSON READING MY
SCRIPT HAD WRITTEN ON
THE SIDE OF IT 'WTF—AS IN
WHAT THE (EXPLETIVE) —' AND
GAVE NO OTHER CONTEXT,"
SAYS PAREDES. "ON ANOTHER
SCRIPT, LATER ON, IT CAME
BACK WITH A DASH AND A
LINE THAT SAID, 'I LITERALLY
DON'T GIVE A (EXPLETIVE)
ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW.'
THAT WAS ALL THE NOTE WAS,
NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE
ABOUT IT. WE ALL HAD A
REALLY GOOD LAUGH ABOUT
IT IN THE WRITING ROOM."
By Evan Henerson
F E AT U R E
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