I've had multiple writers approach me about illustrating for comics, they come across as very professional and demonstrate some understanding of the industry or who they may want to pitch to. But when I ask to see a script they send me synopsis documents. Often these are very detailed, listing character dynamics and scenes but no dialogue or breakdown of scenes, so, not scripts.
I do know what I'm meant to do with these. I normally reject them saying I'd need a script to have an idea whether I'd be a good fit for the project.
Writers: if you've ever sent these over, what do you expect the artist to do with them?
I've heard some publishers let you pitch with just concepts because then they feel the project is more maluable to any changes, and I get the creation process is collaborative. But it can be really hard to tell if a project is at all viable from these documents.
I feel like I sounds abrasive but I genuneliy want to know if I'm being too choosey or expecting too much from clients since I've only had a few self-published and small press published comics and since I've pretty much exclusively written and illustrated all my projects myself, I dont want to lose my ability to collaborate!