Written 21 pages.
Nearing the end of Act 1. HAN SOLO Here's where the fun begins. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) Currently preparing a beat sheet and outline for a rewrite. Need to get these scenes nice and tight. Aiming for 95 pages. Reworking the story, setups and payoffs. Should make for a far better and much more entertaining movie. Should have this draft finished before the end of next month.
Reached 98 pages. Slightly more than anticipated.
Will be cracking on with a rewrite of Space Vacation. as·pire Verb /əˈspī(ə)r/
1. Direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something: "we never thought that we might aspire to those heights". 2. Rise high; tower. Dictionary.com If you’ve never written a screenplay and you’re in the process of going to classes, buying books on the craft, reading scripts, and plan on writing one. Then you’re aspiring to do it. You haven’t done it yet. If you already write screenplays and write constantly and consistently, you are no longer aspiring to be a screenwriter. You are one. You’re probably aspiring to be a paid professional with produced works and credits to your name. This is no doubt the goal for most screenwriters and of course the joy of the actual writing process itself. As with anything, writing spec screenplays is a numbers game.
The larger the portfolio of work you have, the better the chance you have of hitting a constantly moving target. To give themselves the best possible chance, writers should build up a formidable arsenal of work to compete in an already tough industry. Look at it from an agent’s and manager’s point of view. They’re unlikely to take on a client who doesn’t have much in the way of writing samples or specs to their name. They want clients who put in blood, sweat and tears and who successfully churn out work at a constant rate. And who will ultimately make them money. But don’t forget, as a writer you need to do a lot of ground work first. Give yourself the best possible chance. Build that portfolio. Because they'll more than likely put this question to you. What else do you have? Started working on a rewrite. Been outlining today, even wrote the opening page. Going for a completely different first act. Hopefully this will set everything up for the payoffs in the third act.
Will have to wait and see. Okay, I'm 11 pages in. Going for around 95 pages. Roughly an 1 hour 35 minutes give or take. Making headway with editing this. The page count will definitely be a lot lower in this draft.
I have two, maybe three more screenplays to work on and then it will be a case of rereading and proofreading them. And getting them ready for the end of the year. Then I can crack on with deciding which new scripts I want to start work on. Loglines, beatsheets, outlines etc. Need to have four good ideas and loglines to work with. Currently working on Kissed.
Trying to get the page count down to 105-110 pages and doing some restructuring of scenes. Just been going through this and editing it. Can't believe how many format and spelling mistakes I've found in it.
Bad spelling and grammar can take a reader out of a story. Do your best to proofread any work you do. If possible get friends or colleagues to read through it. Although this can be tremendously difficult. |
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