What do you do when you knock out that final draft?
Yeah, I see, most of you guys are lucky. MHS, whenever I finish a final, final of a final draft, someone reads it and says: "This is so great! You're so close to cross the finish line with this monumental effort. I think you should just..." so here I go, rolling my peebles uphill again.
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Last edited by GreyGhost22; 06-16-2010, 06:00 PM.
Reason: Forgot to strategically place a smiley.
"The writer is the most important person in Hollywood, but we must never tell the sons of bitches." -- Irving G. Thalberg
First script. After writing fade out, I was so proud! I did it. I just sat there, numbed. For awhile. I remember thinking, man what am I gonna do now. Wow, now I know how little I knew then, and still do about this screenplay venture...
" Don't really like writing. But I do like having written." Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad.
Sort of a sub-point on this topic, but I just realized my most emotional moment is not when I finish the script, which is almost anti-climactic - it's when I finish my outline, which I did just today on my latest effort.
Now I dump the 24 pages (a long one, this time) into my script template and the fun begins. This is the easy part.
So, anyway, no real celebration, but a tremendous sense of relief that I've manufactured a complete story and can stop worrying that "maybe this is the one I can't figure out".
sh*t... See I've already had too much celebratory booze from just typing my latest fade-out... Cuz at first glance I thought the heading said:
"Another Fisting Tw*t Script"
Imagine my disappointment when I started scrolling the thread.
But in all seriousness -- I use the finish as an excuse to buy a new toy that's completely trivial and not "needed" in any way. Cuz I figure... If no one else is paying me for my scripts, I might as well pay myself a little something. This time it was a Flip Video camera -- which is fairly amazing quality for the cost and size...
I have yet to finish writing my first script, but I would imagine myself: typing the last word, then blasting "Faith Or Forgiveness" by The Ghost Inside, while smashing my keyboard across the desk.
I have yet to finish writing my first script, but I would imagine myself: typing the last word, then blasting "Faith Or Forgiveness" by The Ghost Inside, while smashing my keyboard across the desk.
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