If you are writing something that's meant to be funny, whether it's a sketch, play, screenplay, or stand-up set, you may be able to make use of my services as script reader. Depending on what you submit to me and what I think I can usefully feed back to you, you'll get back something from a brief email to a fully annotated script, all you need to do is mail your text to me at scripts@ashleyfrieze.co.uk.
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Advice on Receiving my Advice
Someone else, reading your work, will have difficulty in telling you how to turn it into exactly what you intended it to be. They are not you. The best they can do is either recommend how to polish it, or suggest ways that they might have achieved the same thing. So, I will, in most probability, be suggesting ways that you can be like me, rather than like you. So it's not necessarily in your interest to take what I say word for word, unless you want to be me.
I try to write suggestions and amendments in what I perceive to be sympathetic to your style, but I'm still using my own personal taste and judgment. Therefore, when you receive notes from me, the best thing to do is look at the questions I ask, or the reasons that may be behind any amendments I've suggested, and try to see what you would have done if you were editing the script with these things in mind. Then make your own changes. You may think that my suggestions are wrong. You may think that they're the perfect change for your script. That's entirely up to you.
Remember, my opinion is meant to be that and nothing more. So anything you receive from me should be considered as something you think about and then walk away from. I don't want you to be disheartened by anything I tell you, nor do I want to enter into an argument about what is right or wrong. There is no right and wrong.
Satisfied "Customers"
I have worked on script review/editing/writing material for, among others, the following people: