It is Done
This was originally posted on another blog on January 24, 2009:
On March 27th, 2004, I saw the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. That film prompted me to write the prior post about finding my voice.
A few months ago, I also posted about my struggle with the 70-page Stretch. Go ahead… take some time to read them both.
What isn’t mentioned in those two posts is that the script I began on March 28th, 2004 and the one I began about one year ago are one and the same. The first version was a good start, but my lack of prep and research on the technicalities of screenwriting caught up with me. After a good bit of research and taking the time to plot out all of the elements of the story I wanted to include, I ended up cannibalizing bits and pieces of that first version and fit into the second one I started last year.
What also isn’t mentioned is that every year since 1994, I have wanted to finish a script – any script – in order to enter the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition. Every year for the past 14 years when May 1st rolled around, I felt a slight stabbing sensation in my heart as I realized that another year had gone by without completing that goal.
This post isn’t for me to declare that this year I will finally finish a script that I will submit to the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition.
This post is to say that the script is done.
I did it.
Coming in at just around 94 pages is the first draft of my screenplay titled “The Soup Storm.” I want to cry right now. I want to dance. I want to celebrate and hoot and holler and scream.
I did it.
I still have work to do. As I said, this is the first draft. I have to proofread, I have to re-order and rewrite a few scenes. I have to polish it up and make it sellable. But that’s just finishing work. The big job is done.
It only took me 15 years to complete this goal, but this year I will be entering the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition.
There are a few writer friends that occasionally pop by and read this blog. If you have time, I would LOVE to let you read it and get some feedback from you. Hell, even if you aren’t a writer, I could still use the feedback. This story’s been living in my head since May 12th, 1995, so I’m not exactly objective about it.
I did it.
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Congrats! I’d love to take a look at it. What type of review are you looking for?
Check your email.
The one other guy who read it was kind of confused about some of the “female thinking” scenes, so I would LOVE another male perspective to see if it’s a genuine problem with the story or if it’s just one of those “Mars/Venus” sort of things. Yeah, I totally hate that I just referenced Mars or Venus just then. Dammit.