"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")
"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
"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