"He said it right."

Reader Adam made a great point in the comments to the last post -

I still have people who try to write scripts that have had one too many English classes and try to write for the human voice with proper English. The problem is that nobody speaks in complete sentences.

Adam is dead-on right here, and we've run into this situation countless times over the years. These days, when we ask for a script from a client we frame it by asking for a "script outline" and tell them that we'll likely be fine-tuning it for the spoken word, then coming back to them for approval. That way, whoever is doing the writing knows ahead of time that there will be changes, and they're not as likely to get their feathers ruffled. Although sometimes they still get their feathers ruffled. 

This clip from The West Wing sizes up the situation rather nicely - 

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