Well, this is what I can tell you about my progress with the screenplay for Script Frenzy: I am trying valiantly. I am plugging away. I am merely thirty pages behind where I ought to be at this point, and I consider that a victory.
A few days before I started, I began to have the sneaking suspicion I wasn't being honest with myself about how hard it was going to be. After all, didn't I write about two hundred pages of novel back in November? Without the fancy-pants formatting that allows for a lot fewer words per page? How hard could 100 pages of hugely indented dialogue and three-line action sequences be?
Really, really, really hard. The mindset (and writing skill-set, for that matter) necessary for screenwriting is very different from that of noveling. I can't rest on the laurels of being good with turn of phrase or being inside a character's head. Everything must be related to visuals or audio and man, oh, man, it is tough. Gratifying and interesting and challenging but tough.
And now I must go back to it. I've been working all day and I'd still like to get a few more pages done before dinner. Wish me luck.
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