Hope this is the right place to ask the question. :) How many script pages do you set as a goal to be written in a day? And how many months do you set as a deadline for you to finish your movie script? I just want to know what is the average proper time frame to set for yourself.

Day??? Months??? Ha! I wish. My pet projects I've been writing for the past... as early as 15 years. The script I've been actively working on lately dates as far back as 2008 at least as far as concept goes. (And it's nearly finished.)

But then again, every year since I turned 18 was gonna be the year that I was gonna be an adult and pursue my dreams (be they acting, writing, directing, being a bigshot rock star). And while I had made a little bit of progress, life circumstances always held me back. It's a miracle I ever got anything written.

Sometimes I wait for inspiration to strike, or I just open up my script and force myself to come up with something to write. It's amazing how I can recover from writer's block. I just write and see where it goes and if I can make Point A reach Point B organically.

Yep, right place. :)

It depends on how much life, day job, study etc., is getting in the way.
Set achievable deadlines for yourself, whether that be a scene, ten pages per day, first Act.

There are many articles and the general consensus is three months but six to twelve if it's your first feature length screenplay - whether you first outline, write character outlines etc.

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-write-a-screenplay/#:~:text=When%20professional%20screenwriters%20are%20given,about%2015%20days%20of%20writing.

When professional screenwriters are given time to write a screenplay, they're provided a time range between 1-3 months (30-90 days). In the past, I've set my personal writing pace at 6-7 pages in an 8 hour day of writing, which roughly translates to about 15 days of writing.

Write every day is a good maxim, no matter how much or little.

OWCs are good training for writing short scripts to deadline.
And we have a Halloween one (I'm guessing) coming up.


https://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?c-OWC/
Stay tuned. Announcement coming soon.

Hopefully others will chime in with their tried and true methods.
There you go, Chris got in before me.

I think it depends on the story, too. I’ve written three scripts in 2021 and usually it took about a month per script. May sound fast, but I feel when you have a good story, and you’re behind it and it’s writing itself, your motivation level goes way up and you just wake up in the morning wanting to write and you find the time. Not always like that, though.

There is no completion. There is only suffering. :)

I just had to comment on this thread because I just responded to a request for a script....with a script I wrote nearly 30 years ago (!)  And yes, I revised it yet again before sending it off.  I have to definitely agree with Zack's quote above, "There is no completion.  There is only suffering." LOL.  This one's been sitting on the shelf gathering dust so to speak - so who knows.  Now may be its time.  If you love writing as I do, never give up.  Some will take you a few weeks....some will take you thirty years.