Writing is rewriting, or so the saying goes. But it gets hard. We lose our distance from the material. We lose sight of how scenes play, or what the reader knows, or what was even interesting about the idea to begin with. “Screenwriting is like building a machine out of hundreds of little pieces,” a teacher once told me, “Only you don’t know how the pieces fit together, if they’re the right pieces, or what the machine is even supposed to do in the end.”

That’s where a good script consultant comes in.