After a couple more sessions of rewriting our pilot, we had what we felt was a script good enough to send off so the next port of call was to have a look at the BBC Writersroom for information on how to submit an unsolicited script.
There's a lot of useful information on there but this one gem keeps stopping me short, "We want to see the best possible draft you can achieve...". It stands out to me because as a writer, I often fall into the trap of not knowing when to stop editing my work. And of course the doubts start to seep in. Is it the best we can achieve? Is it really? Would some additional tweaking improve what we already have?
Another piece of information on the BBC site that reinforces this doubt is this under 'What we don't accept',
"Resubmissions of work previously rejected, even after rewrites - make sure you make your script as good as you possibly can before sending it to us".
We're only going to get one chance to impress the BBC with this script so do we send the script as it is, or return and do our best to hone it to within an inch of its life?
I foresee an opened bottle of red wine and plenty of heated discussion tonight.
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