I Reached the Finish Line!
April 27th, 2008
I powered through it, the last 8 pages of my screenplay for Script Frenzy. I was dreading having to write the rest of it. The characters and direction I was taking it wasn’t what I intended, sure there were funny moments, but overall the writing was pretty terrible. I think what kept me from really getting into the story was it’s shallowness. I would like to think that I could have crafted a message of redemption within the screenplay, I thought about it and could even visualize it, but in the end it never materialized.
Unlike NaNoWriMo, Script Frenzy lacked the pressure. With NaNoWriMo the goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days, a challenge that would test the sanity of anyone who attempts it. On the other hand, Script Frenzy’s goal is only 100 pages. My screenplay is about 16,723 words and if I had continued to go at the pace I was going when I started, I would have been done in 10 days, half the time it took me to complete NaNoWriMo.
Now that it’s over, I can finally breathe. It has been this weight on my shoulders ever since day six. I wasn’t writing everyday, and I wasn’t even contributing to the Script Frenzy Viddler group daily like I had in the beginning. I was under a lot of pressure, though it was pressure applied by me, trying to finish this blog and get my other blog up and running, working full-time, etc. By the end of the day, there wasn’t any time to work on my screenplay and if there was, I didn’t want to work on it.
Today was the day to finish. Even though I had an extensive amount of work to do other than my screenplay, I took the 45 minutes and wrote those last few pages and it feels good. This is my second year in a row that I finished Script Frenzy and I can now say that I’ve written another screenplay. Not everyone can say that.
Tags: nanowrimo, script frenzy, winner
