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.
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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