Friday March 25

Spring Break has started and so has the race to finish my script. Our complete rough drafts are due the Monday we're back. We'll be using classes to read scripts aloud, ask questions, and provide commentary. Our scripts have to be at least 30 pages long. Surprisingly, writing that much isn't the hard part. The tricky part is containing your sub-plots and bringing your story to a concise ending. Right now I have about twenty pages written. There are a few scenes I'm very confident about, but there are still a couple I need to write, and one that I want to rework. It can be frustrating to write a lot and then end up scrapping most of it, but it's all part of the process. It's sort of like sifting through all the junk in your brain and then picking out the true "gems" of ideas. When you finally end up with a piece of writing you're proud of, it gives you all sorts of new ideas for dialogue, back story, character development and more. I'll be spending the break writing a little bit every day. I'm expecting my finished draft to be forty, maybe even fifty pages. A full length, published script is usually around 70 or more pages. A page corresponds to roughly a minute of dialogue.