Day 366: A Journey Ends, Yet Continues
It's Day 366, the final day of what began as a one-year odyssey to sell a screenplay. It is a bittersweet day. On the positive side, I completed the rewrites (more or less) on The Devil's Tramping Ground. It has been a massive rewriting effort with 60 new pages in three weeks. The page one rewrite of this script began several months ago, but as we all know, July was a bust in the writing department. Still, it was a major accomplishment to complete the script, and a year after
Day 363: A Completed Script Not Finished
It's Day 363 and I made my weekend deadline of completing The Devil's Tramping Ground. But to throw a little water on the celebration, it is by no means finished. Still, let's gloat just a little. After the terrible month that was July - only two pages written - and a really slow start to August, I kicked into high gear for the later half of the month and managed to make it through 60 pages of script material. Some of that material is completely new, some rewritten and some r
Day 360: Another 15 Pages Complete
So I over estimated what I could achieve in two days. Again. I had hoped to hit 30 pages by the time the next Rewrites workshop rolled around. I made 15. I actually did about 20 pages of work, but the final count when all was said and done was 15 completed pages. I'd like to take credit for the 20 and all that material that I cut because that would put me closer to the 30 I predicted, but it was really only 15. Of course, I could have made the full 30 if I had been more produ
Day 358: 15 Pages Closer
The long drought is over. I pulled off 15 pages today. That's not a full 15 of new material, but there is quite a bit of new and/or rewritten stuff and some major restructuring to get this section to work. The actual page count of the script only went up by one page to 117 (just another page that has to get trimmed eventually!), but enough work went into this section that I feel okay with calling it the 15 pages it is. That brings me up to about page 74 or 75 for the script.
Day 356: Back on Track
At long last, screenwriting! It wasn't much in terms of page count, only about 3 new pages, but there was a considerable amount of restructuring work on the first 60 pages of The Devil's Tramping Ground. However, after trying out some new structure, I ultimately returned to what I had. Some would say this was a wasted venture, but it actually was a great exercise in rewriting that seemed to indicate I was on the right path. And it is easier to restructure half a screenplay ra
Day 354: When Productivity Keeps You From Being Productive
Six weeks. That's how long it has been since my last post. That's a lot of time with which one could get a lot of writing done, and I can confidently say I have managed two (2) whole pages in that lengthy expanse. Two whole pages. Let me first explain that I can't believe it has been six weeks. It honestly only feels like a couple of days, but that is what happens when you become overloaded with work. Unfortunately, it wasn't work of the paying kind though some of it has pote
