When you're writing like 10 hours a day for weeks on end to finish by a deadline, how do you keep sane?
My writing partner and I have to do 3 assignments back to back to back and I find myself losing my mind after a while. Eventually I can't tell up from down, left from right. I have no idea if what I wrote sucks or not. When I hand stuff in I look like a fat version of Tom Hanks in Castaway.
I eventually start to get paranoid that my script has no story, no flow... it's just a million little pieces cobbled together in a giant incohesive mess. I'll compare it to other scripts by writers I admire and they make it look easy. "Bet they wrote it in like a week" I'll grumble as I stand in line at Subway again. I look at my script and all I see is what looks like the matrix... just code streaming away.
I don't see any way around this other than stepping away from the work for a while but it's not an option on a deadline. Just wondering if the same thing happens to anyone else.
My writing partner and I have to do 3 assignments back to back to back and I find myself losing my mind after a while. Eventually I can't tell up from down, left from right. I have no idea if what I wrote sucks or not. When I hand stuff in I look like a fat version of Tom Hanks in Castaway.
I eventually start to get paranoid that my script has no story, no flow... it's just a million little pieces cobbled together in a giant incohesive mess. I'll compare it to other scripts by writers I admire and they make it look easy. "Bet they wrote it in like a week" I'll grumble as I stand in line at Subway again. I look at my script and all I see is what looks like the matrix... just code streaming away.
I don't see any way around this other than stepping away from the work for a while but it's not an option on a deadline. Just wondering if the same thing happens to anyone else.
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