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On Getting the First Draft Done

1/16/2014

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Finished writing the first draft of my screenplay.  It is a spy thriller I've been thinking about for a while with a brainy heroine, a government conspiracy and some bad guys.  No car chases.  Not as many f-bombs as Wolf of Wall Street but a few.  And I am going to put it away for a week.  Not reread it at all.  And then...start the painful process of rereading and rewriting the crappy parts.

I have some brave friends who have volunteered to be beta readers and man, this isn't even ready for beta reading, but...the first draft is done.  On a Venn diagram somewhere of "seeing your writing become a movie" there is a big circle of "thinking about writing it" and then a small circle of "writing screenplay" and then a really important smaller circle of "editing it so that it DOESN'T SUCK" and then a smaller one that is "getting an agent or producer to read it" and so on. 

So the optimist in me says, hey, I moved from a big circle to a smaller one.  Woo hoo.  And I had a 110 page conversation with my brainy bad ass heroine.

This brand new screenplay of mine is a messy fledgling.  We'll see.






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