I finished the script last night! It's about 17 pages long and it's most likely awful, but I'm happy about it. I'm happy about getting it done anyways.
I found a lot of challenges along the way.
I started quickly, and wrote five good pages. I reviewed it with Phil and Mike, and they loved it. After that, it became increasingly difficult to continue and to finish.
Eventually, I gave myself a deadline. I was speaking with Mike, who said we had to get the script finished so we could finish our pre-production planning and everything. I told him to give me a couple of days to finish, and that I would have everything in by Tuesday.
I finished the rest of it yesterday, and it whooped me. I wrote and wrote, then deleted and wrote again. I had to replay everything in my head and make sure that everything fit and made sense to previous scenes and dialog. Granted, this story is very silly, with silly characters and a silly plot, but the structure still had to be right. It still had to be a story, and not just a random mesh of jokes.
I finished around 11 pm last night. It was really tough. There were so many things I had to remember, and even though I've written several scripts before, I think this one was the hardest, because I knew I was writing from beginning to end, and I knew that this is a story we'll be producing in the next two to three weeks.
The next challenge is that we are now supposed to be shooting on Saturday the 10th and the 17th, and I just barely finished the first draft. This is going to be fun.
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