A Short is never clicked. It shows up while you are scrolling, plays on its own, and has one second to offer some justification to the audience. Justification is provided through words, and those words will be performed live and must survive.
Every script must be read out loud, and this offers the least expensive way to seek out the best version of the script. The opportunity to do this is provided, before the sentence that allows the best memory jog is read, then it must be timed.
Performance and written English are interspersed at the places where they are differentiated. The phrase in order to ensure cannot be used in a performance, and a phrase that reads well can leave you breathless. A Short is a one take performance, and an unperformable phrase costs the entire take.
A model writes Shorts that engage the audience but records quickly. They utilize lengthy noun phrases, don’t use contractions, and will have an unyielding rhythm. Because of this, presenters will begin rewording the Shorts by the third cut, which at the end will result in a script you’re not utilizing.
The ideal structure is hook, one idea, one proof, one idea, one line that loops back. Pacing must be done by counting words and measuring seconds, not by feel. It takes an average of 45 seconds to perform 110 words, and no amount of confidence can alter that.
When a script comes to you for marking delivery during production, pausable sections cue you in on the required inflections and word placement to avoid clashing with on-screen text. A failed line will prompt you to return feedback on writing, and then you’ll get a mouth-shaped revision rather than an authorial one.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical YouTube shorts script | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Short (45 sec) | 120 | $12 | $0.12 | $12.12 |
| Pair of Shorts (45 sec each) | 240 | $24 | $0.24 | $24.24 |
| Weekly batch (five Shorts) | 600 | $60 | $0.60 | $60.60 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes. Send the template, a previous example, or the structure you are required to use, and the writer works inside it. If a required section does not fit the material honestly, they will flag it rather than pad it out.
Ask on the contact page and a person will answer, usually the same working day. For a live order, reply to your confirmation email and it reaches whoever is handling it.
Shorts viewers often come from a channel they’re already subscribed to, and so small changes are made and the writer annotates them. For the closing line referring to an extended video, it is pointless for an unrelated and unengaged audience, and we will note the swap instead of assuming one file is appropriate for both cases.
As the tool will promise, there will be three to four posts that stand alone rather than ten. To find post moments that stand alone, a writer will watch the source video, and then a setup line will be filmed to provide a new context.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Our audience left before 40 seconds because it was too slow. The section after the two minute mark is very good. A colder open was requested and we delivered and the drop off on the retention graph finally flattened where it use to be a steady decline.
The sequence of chapters in the book solved a problem I had been stuck on for months, which was that the theory appeared in the beginning. Now, it’s situated at the back. It also has flat chapter titles and I renamed all of them. I believe chapter titles are a personal preference, and I’d much sooner have a solid structure and rename titles.
I had managed to write around 40 thousand words. Unfortunately those words didn’t provide any structure. When I received the feedback on this, it contained a merged chapter, one chapter completely removed (along with an explanation as to why) and the additional feedback stated that the chapter that had been removed was essentially doing the work of three chapters which I had already written. It was a bit painful to read, but correct.
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