Here are some testimonials from mentors and clients regarding my script services. You can also read testimonials from producers of my professional writing credits on the Projects page.
"Many thanks for your excellent review. This is what I was looking and you have given me plenty to work on which is great. Thanks again for a terrific service and the quicker than expected turnaround time."
David Daly, screenwriter
Email: "Thanks for this invaluable service." Twitter: "Right. Proofread finished. Yay. Well worth having that done externally with @Sofluid Recommended and thanks. #charlie_film #scriptchat"
Mike Ogden, screenwriter/director
"Thanks very much for the feedback. I found it timely and extremely useful. I was a little bit lost after completing the work but I feel I have now got some focus on how to improve it. Thanks very much for your assistance. I look forward to providing further material."
Stuart Wilson, screenwriter
"Thanks very much for that [Overview report), it was extremely useful and just what I wanted. Well worth the money. Lots for me to work on. Now, just to motivate myself into doing the hard work of rewriting!"
Daniel Stewart, screenwriter
"Michelle asked thought-provoking questions of my screenplay, able to put her finger on the main problem plaguing my plot. She then expanded on the exact elements that were causing me trouble, providing more insight into my characters and the mechanics of my plot in one read than I had stumbled through in months.Her turnaround time was quicker than I thought possible, delivering early as she knew I was on a deadline, and with the quality of her coverage, it was definitely value for money. Her synopsis was really helpful for building my treatment and her conclusion told me exactly what my next draft needed. Thank you, Michelle - I will definitely be back!"
Rosie Claverton, screenwriter
"I cannot recommend Michelle's services too highly. She took my script and gave it a thorough and detailed critique which helped me to edit the work to its greater strength and power. Nothing superficial about Michelle's feedback!"
Elinor Perry-Smith, screenwriter and playwright
"As a published author I understand exactly how important it is to seek different views and constructive criticisms on my writing and its development, but as an emerging screen and theatre writer even more so because of its complexity and structure. Michelle came to me with strong recommendation from a contact at the London Screenwriting Festival and since this time, is proving to be an absolute crucial asset to my learning and development alongside other critics and supports. What I like about Michelle is her objectiveness and what appears a natural ability to tune instinctively to characterisation, story and its structure. For me personally, I believe we will beworking together for a long time to come."
Jean Maye: author, screen & stage play writer
"When I decided to begin writing for television earlier this year I had no idea of format; how to describe or develop characters in the way expected. Once I had finished what I considered to be a masterpiece of literature I came across Michelle's website and E-mailed my script to her. I was amazed by the quickness and amazingly professional response I received. It broke down my script and showed me where I could improve and what was done well in a way that made me want to succeed further. As I'm very new to script writing I always have a bundle of questions on how to write voice overs etc etc and Michelle is always happy to help with links to websites, recommendations of people or products always virtually straight away. I cannot recommend Michelle Goode enough; I have found her professional, helpful and genuinely interested in what I am doing which I'm finding is extremely rare for script writers to come across. Michelle has been a key part of the scripts I have written so far and I fully recommend you use her service to use her expertise."
Stephen Fruish, screenwriter
"A huge THANK YOU for your comprenhensive report on my first draft of Life and Death. It will, most certaintly, be really useful for the redraft that is going to happen. I can't believe the turnaround; I am amazed at how quickly I have gotten this. Will most definantely keep in touch for your services in the future!"
Scott Baker, screenwriter
"Michelle produced a detailed and perceptive report on my script, highlighting structural and character issues which need work on the next draft. The report also emphasized positive aspects of the script which was very encouraging. She provides a friendly and helpful service to any writer wanting a professional report on their work."
Helen Bang, screenwriter
"Michelle is a wonderful script reader who has offered great insights into my scripts. Highly recommended."
James Hickey, screenwriter
"Sometimes you get so engrossed in your work you have no idea if it is any good, and friends may only say what you want to hear. Sending my work to Michelle was a leap of faith for me, but she was extremely friendly and encouraging and her observations were informed, interesting, and enabled me to consider things from a different perspective. Highly recommended."
Andy Jaye, writer/director
“Michelle has given us excellent script feedback from hundreds of submitted screenplays. She is diligent, fast and above all, always happy to help. I recommend her 100%. In all honesty, we would have run into real problems if she were not one of our team.”
- Chris Jones, London Screenwriter's Festival creative director
“If you are looking for a professional-level appraisal of your script (and you should), be it TV or film, Michelle is very much a safe pair of hands and will give you a detailed evaluation of the script's concepts, structure and potential that will help you develop it to the point where you can sell it. I certainly recommend her.”
- Peter Spencer, screenwriter
"Michelle has a great understanding of character and appreciates how important it is to empathise with, rather than "like" them; she reports without prejudice and doesn't allow personal preferences to influence her thoughts on how the story and craft works in a screenplay - a most underrated, but very important, quality in a script reader."
- Lucy V Hay, professional script reader and course tutor ("How to be a script reader")
Michelle recently provided informal development notes for a first draft script I wrote. As with many things in life, when you focus too hard it becomes difficult to see the wood for the trees, and a fresh pair of eyes was just the ticket! Her positive, thoughtful notes demonstrated a real insight into the workings of my script, and offered a great platform to carry out a re-write that made the script feel more weighty and solid. Michelle has a real talent for asking questions that help open your mind to new possibilities, and causes you to re-think your approach in other areas, all delivered in a summarised format that allows you to use the notes as a real working document. I’d strongly recommend you use her development notes if you want to move your work forward to another level!
- Kevin Jordan, screenwriter
"Michelle provided informal, bullet-point style feedback on a short play of mine, a ten minute monologue and the first script I had written for the stage. Her insightful help provided a challenging and fresh perspective enabling me to re-examine and improve the piece."
- Matt Gibbs, writer (mattgibbs.net)
"I asked Michelle to read the pilot episode of a TV drama serial I am writing. What I got back was an extremely professional, thoughtful and genuine report making many points - all extremely helpful. I have since been dialoguing with Michelle about it and that has led me to so many insights about my work and this particular project. I have a much better sense of what I'm trying to do and what works and what does not. Michelle discusses with such sensitivity and no fear on challenging the writer but with love to help them be the best they can be. She shows a high degree of intellectual and particularly emotional intelligence, the latter being the most important for this kind of work I feel, both in dealing with writers and also in writing herself. She has an excellent sense on character, dialogue, structure and what a screenplay needs to engage an audience. She really understands drama. A phenomenal young lady!"
- Penny Noble, screenwriter
"I had a script. It had been through a few drafts and I'd lost my focus on it. I knew it needed tweaks to make it better. Fortunately for me, Michelle offered her services for a script report on the damn thing. When it came back I didn't look at the script as a damn thing anymore, it wasn't that annoying thing in the corner that I didn't know what to do with, now it was something I understood. I could see what worked with the script, and I could see what didn't. It gave me focus and was written in such a clear, concise way that it made it simple to identify the problems and set to work on them. I reccommend her service to anyone who needs any help with script writing, or anyone who just wants someone to have a final look over their masterpiece."
- Robin Bell, screenwriter, whose script mentioned above later qualified in the 2010 Red Planet Prize competition!
"Hi Michelle just got your report on my screenplay. Thanks for your comments, you have picked out significant things and you are absolutely spot on. It's a first draft and some of the stuff you mentioned I have already changed but you have reinforced a lot of my own issues and thoughts and brought up some new ones which is great! Good luck and thanks again."
- Grant Corr, screenwriter
"Michelle wrote development notes for my two short screenplays "Flaming Ghost" and "Search For Soul-Mate" that I found very much useful. There is no doubt that she is so committed to her work and she's so much professional too, I even think I should give her credits of my feature length screenplays as those are based on the short screenplays which are noted by Michelle and after her development notes I'm feeling so much light that how to write them."
- Nafees Ahmed, screenwriter
“Michelle's development notes on my feature screenplay treatment were almost identical to the feedback I subsequently received from a professional university Creative Writing tutor and published novelist...What you get is a great insight into your work. It's impossible to critique your own writing (as we all know); Michelle's notes do it for you. I sent her a 12-page treatment and what I got back was 5 pages of detailed analysis of my work. She cares almost as much about the story as I do! Reading through the notes prompts two reactions: the first being one of pain - Michelle asks the questions you'd rather avoid. You know the story has issues, but you'd rather they go away of their own accord. Michelle doesn't let them, which prompts the second reaction - a nod of agreement. You realise where the problems lie and that they need addressing immediately! Michelle doesn't just point out where you're going wrong, she gets involved. She dives into the story and suggests various possible solutions to your problems. She addresses all aspects of the work - story, characters, dialogue, theme, action, format et al. Strongly recommended!”
- Neil Baker, screenwriter and English degree student
"Since I began working with Michelle every aspect of my story & characters have improved immensely. The detail, the care, the... love that Michelle puts into her work is simply extraordinary."
- Gabriel O. Cooper, screenwriter
"Many thanks for your excellent review. This is what I was looking and you have given me plenty to work on which is great. Thanks again for a terrific service and the quicker than expected turnaround time."
David Daly, screenwriter
Email: "Thanks for this invaluable service." Twitter: "Right. Proofread finished. Yay. Well worth having that done externally with @Sofluid Recommended and thanks. #charlie_film #scriptchat"
Mike Ogden, screenwriter/director
"Thanks very much for the feedback. I found it timely and extremely useful. I was a little bit lost after completing the work but I feel I have now got some focus on how to improve it. Thanks very much for your assistance. I look forward to providing further material."
Stuart Wilson, screenwriter
"Thanks very much for that [Overview report), it was extremely useful and just what I wanted. Well worth the money. Lots for me to work on. Now, just to motivate myself into doing the hard work of rewriting!"
Daniel Stewart, screenwriter
"Michelle asked thought-provoking questions of my screenplay, able to put her finger on the main problem plaguing my plot. She then expanded on the exact elements that were causing me trouble, providing more insight into my characters and the mechanics of my plot in one read than I had stumbled through in months.Her turnaround time was quicker than I thought possible, delivering early as she knew I was on a deadline, and with the quality of her coverage, it was definitely value for money. Her synopsis was really helpful for building my treatment and her conclusion told me exactly what my next draft needed. Thank you, Michelle - I will definitely be back!"
Rosie Claverton, screenwriter
"I cannot recommend Michelle's services too highly. She took my script and gave it a thorough and detailed critique which helped me to edit the work to its greater strength and power. Nothing superficial about Michelle's feedback!"
Elinor Perry-Smith, screenwriter and playwright
"As a published author I understand exactly how important it is to seek different views and constructive criticisms on my writing and its development, but as an emerging screen and theatre writer even more so because of its complexity and structure. Michelle came to me with strong recommendation from a contact at the London Screenwriting Festival and since this time, is proving to be an absolute crucial asset to my learning and development alongside other critics and supports. What I like about Michelle is her objectiveness and what appears a natural ability to tune instinctively to characterisation, story and its structure. For me personally, I believe we will beworking together for a long time to come."
Jean Maye: author, screen & stage play writer
"When I decided to begin writing for television earlier this year I had no idea of format; how to describe or develop characters in the way expected. Once I had finished what I considered to be a masterpiece of literature I came across Michelle's website and E-mailed my script to her. I was amazed by the quickness and amazingly professional response I received. It broke down my script and showed me where I could improve and what was done well in a way that made me want to succeed further. As I'm very new to script writing I always have a bundle of questions on how to write voice overs etc etc and Michelle is always happy to help with links to websites, recommendations of people or products always virtually straight away. I cannot recommend Michelle Goode enough; I have found her professional, helpful and genuinely interested in what I am doing which I'm finding is extremely rare for script writers to come across. Michelle has been a key part of the scripts I have written so far and I fully recommend you use her service to use her expertise."
Stephen Fruish, screenwriter
"A huge THANK YOU for your comprenhensive report on my first draft of Life and Death. It will, most certaintly, be really useful for the redraft that is going to happen. I can't believe the turnaround; I am amazed at how quickly I have gotten this. Will most definantely keep in touch for your services in the future!"
Scott Baker, screenwriter
"Michelle produced a detailed and perceptive report on my script, highlighting structural and character issues which need work on the next draft. The report also emphasized positive aspects of the script which was very encouraging. She provides a friendly and helpful service to any writer wanting a professional report on their work."
Helen Bang, screenwriter
"Michelle is a wonderful script reader who has offered great insights into my scripts. Highly recommended."
James Hickey, screenwriter
"Sometimes you get so engrossed in your work you have no idea if it is any good, and friends may only say what you want to hear. Sending my work to Michelle was a leap of faith for me, but she was extremely friendly and encouraging and her observations were informed, interesting, and enabled me to consider things from a different perspective. Highly recommended."
Andy Jaye, writer/director
“Michelle has given us excellent script feedback from hundreds of submitted screenplays. She is diligent, fast and above all, always happy to help. I recommend her 100%. In all honesty, we would have run into real problems if she were not one of our team.”
- Chris Jones, London Screenwriter's Festival creative director
“If you are looking for a professional-level appraisal of your script (and you should), be it TV or film, Michelle is very much a safe pair of hands and will give you a detailed evaluation of the script's concepts, structure and potential that will help you develop it to the point where you can sell it. I certainly recommend her.”
- Peter Spencer, screenwriter
"Michelle has a great understanding of character and appreciates how important it is to empathise with, rather than "like" them; she reports without prejudice and doesn't allow personal preferences to influence her thoughts on how the story and craft works in a screenplay - a most underrated, but very important, quality in a script reader."
- Lucy V Hay, professional script reader and course tutor ("How to be a script reader")
Michelle recently provided informal development notes for a first draft script I wrote. As with many things in life, when you focus too hard it becomes difficult to see the wood for the trees, and a fresh pair of eyes was just the ticket! Her positive, thoughtful notes demonstrated a real insight into the workings of my script, and offered a great platform to carry out a re-write that made the script feel more weighty and solid. Michelle has a real talent for asking questions that help open your mind to new possibilities, and causes you to re-think your approach in other areas, all delivered in a summarised format that allows you to use the notes as a real working document. I’d strongly recommend you use her development notes if you want to move your work forward to another level!
- Kevin Jordan, screenwriter
"Michelle provided informal, bullet-point style feedback on a short play of mine, a ten minute monologue and the first script I had written for the stage. Her insightful help provided a challenging and fresh perspective enabling me to re-examine and improve the piece."
- Matt Gibbs, writer (mattgibbs.net)
"I asked Michelle to read the pilot episode of a TV drama serial I am writing. What I got back was an extremely professional, thoughtful and genuine report making many points - all extremely helpful. I have since been dialoguing with Michelle about it and that has led me to so many insights about my work and this particular project. I have a much better sense of what I'm trying to do and what works and what does not. Michelle discusses with such sensitivity and no fear on challenging the writer but with love to help them be the best they can be. She shows a high degree of intellectual and particularly emotional intelligence, the latter being the most important for this kind of work I feel, both in dealing with writers and also in writing herself. She has an excellent sense on character, dialogue, structure and what a screenplay needs to engage an audience. She really understands drama. A phenomenal young lady!"
- Penny Noble, screenwriter
"I had a script. It had been through a few drafts and I'd lost my focus on it. I knew it needed tweaks to make it better. Fortunately for me, Michelle offered her services for a script report on the damn thing. When it came back I didn't look at the script as a damn thing anymore, it wasn't that annoying thing in the corner that I didn't know what to do with, now it was something I understood. I could see what worked with the script, and I could see what didn't. It gave me focus and was written in such a clear, concise way that it made it simple to identify the problems and set to work on them. I reccommend her service to anyone who needs any help with script writing, or anyone who just wants someone to have a final look over their masterpiece."
- Robin Bell, screenwriter, whose script mentioned above later qualified in the 2010 Red Planet Prize competition!
"Hi Michelle just got your report on my screenplay. Thanks for your comments, you have picked out significant things and you are absolutely spot on. It's a first draft and some of the stuff you mentioned I have already changed but you have reinforced a lot of my own issues and thoughts and brought up some new ones which is great! Good luck and thanks again."
- Grant Corr, screenwriter
"Michelle wrote development notes for my two short screenplays "Flaming Ghost" and "Search For Soul-Mate" that I found very much useful. There is no doubt that she is so committed to her work and she's so much professional too, I even think I should give her credits of my feature length screenplays as those are based on the short screenplays which are noted by Michelle and after her development notes I'm feeling so much light that how to write them."
- Nafees Ahmed, screenwriter
“Michelle's development notes on my feature screenplay treatment were almost identical to the feedback I subsequently received from a professional university Creative Writing tutor and published novelist...What you get is a great insight into your work. It's impossible to critique your own writing (as we all know); Michelle's notes do it for you. I sent her a 12-page treatment and what I got back was 5 pages of detailed analysis of my work. She cares almost as much about the story as I do! Reading through the notes prompts two reactions: the first being one of pain - Michelle asks the questions you'd rather avoid. You know the story has issues, but you'd rather they go away of their own accord. Michelle doesn't let them, which prompts the second reaction - a nod of agreement. You realise where the problems lie and that they need addressing immediately! Michelle doesn't just point out where you're going wrong, she gets involved. She dives into the story and suggests various possible solutions to your problems. She addresses all aspects of the work - story, characters, dialogue, theme, action, format et al. Strongly recommended!”
- Neil Baker, screenwriter and English degree student
"Since I began working with Michelle every aspect of my story & characters have improved immensely. The detail, the care, the... love that Michelle puts into her work is simply extraordinary."
- Gabriel O. Cooper, screenwriter
