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Re: Screenplay length and drama...
Unless you're thinking of this as a five-hour movie, you've got a problem.
There are a couple of possible sources of this problem. The two most common - and they are not mutually exclusive - are:
1) Your scenes go on too long. You have a scene that only needs to be three quarters of a page, and yet you don't know how to write it down to that, so it ends up being a three-pager.
2) You are worried too much about setting stuff up, rather that getting into your story.
if you were on pace to write, say a 140 page script I'd say go ahead and finish it - with the caveat that you make sure you don't rush the end (it's really hard not to truncate your third act when you're already bumping up against 120). Since you're on pace for something 300-ish, I'd say stop, figure out what the problem is, and then go forward.
I agree with the suggestion to post a few pages to the script pages section. At the very least, we should be able to tell you which of these problems (or both) you have.
Unless you're thinking of this as a five-hour movie, you've got a problem.
There are a couple of possible sources of this problem. The two most common - and they are not mutually exclusive - are:
1) Your scenes go on too long. You have a scene that only needs to be three quarters of a page, and yet you don't know how to write it down to that, so it ends up being a three-pager.
2) You are worried too much about setting stuff up, rather that getting into your story.
if you were on pace to write, say a 140 page script I'd say go ahead and finish it - with the caveat that you make sure you don't rush the end (it's really hard not to truncate your third act when you're already bumping up against 120). Since you're on pace for something 300-ish, I'd say stop, figure out what the problem is, and then go forward.
I agree with the suggestion to post a few pages to the script pages section. At the very least, we should be able to tell you which of these problems (or both) you have.
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