Your dialog needs subtext. Every scene should have character-defining conflict. If it doesn t, it s just exposition and it will die on screen. The best time to ensure this while creating your outline. Do a double-check of all scenes when your outline is complete.
Internet screenwriting message boards can be a waste of time.
Most of the messages are a bunch of complaints, pontifications, and depressive grumbling about how everyone else s writing sucks and the writing of the message s author is great. These message areas are often great abysses of negativity. Your life ain t that exciting. To you it is, but to others probably not. You re not the only one that was an abused child, an abused wife, a discriminated minority, or a frustrated writer.