Sorry to hear someone has pulled out but they definitely have their focus in the right place.

What started out to be a planned horror script has slowly morphed into a Mystery/Crime/Drama story with psychological foreplay. 45 pages in and I'm liking where it has gone. I think I prefer this direction than where I originally wanted it to be.

Anyone else having much luck on this?

Steven, sorry for your loss.  That is sad news indeed, and we all wish you and your family comfort and peace during this time.

Reaper: Sorry to hear about the passing of your uncle. Can always go back to your notes and finish up later if you like...

Got some notes done, character bios finished and a basic outline of where I'm gonna go with this...We'll see. Keep going, guys! Words on the page at this point-just get 'em down and focus on the clean up later...

Reaper - sad to hear. Condolences to you and your family.

ATM I'm stuck at page 25 cause I have two paths I could choose with the script - the easy one (a simple one way direction) or the harder one (couple of different directions - was my original idea, but maybe overloading it). My worst enemy is myself and overthinking EVERYTHING!

I missed the sad news somehow. I'm sorry for your family's loss, Reaper. I hope this Easter will still fill you with happiness  

I'm nearing page 45. Bill has read most of it and there are some concerns, but at this point, I just want to reach the end before I start thinking about rewrites and fixing things. I take all the comments and suggestions seriously though. I just never read my script while writing. I don't do that until I'm finished. Then I read it in one sitting to see how it feels.

Bflywings, if you'd like help or suggestions on where to take your story, feel free to ask for it here. Give us a little more to go on so we get a feel for your story.

Keep pushing guys. It's tough, but you'll feel sooooo good when you write FADE OUT:  

It does feel good. That's my testimonial for the 7owc.  lol.

And you never know who might want to film the script.

Gabe

Quoted from Grandma Bear Keep pushing guys. It's tough, but you'll feel sooooo good when you write FADE OUT:

I'm only about 25 pages in. Can I just go ahead and write FADE OUT now and start this this process of feeling good? Because what I'm feeling now ain't it.

Quoted from Gary I'm only about 25 pages in. Can I just go ahead and write FADE OUT now and start this this process of feeling good? Because what I'm feeling now ain't it.

If it makes you feel any better, you're still one more page ahead of me  

Mark

YOU CAN DO IT! YOU CAN DO IT ALL NIGHT LONG! Rob Schneider

Quoted from Gary in Houston I'm only about 25 pages in. Can I just go ahead and write FADE OUT now and start this this process of feeling good? Because what I'm feeling now ain't it.

I've been through several page 25's. I think it goes with the territory. There's no nice way to search story material unless you're a robot, writing by numbers. And even the robots would be at a loss in opposite terms, searching for what at first seems worthless and untrustworthy-- not worth a scrap of paper. Something that doesn't add up with the numbers as numbers are often known to do. Unless they manage to sojourn with the X.

Why? Cause numbers are the tap-tap-tap of the SOS. Numbers are the tap-tap-tap of the computer keys. The logic needs the pain of the letters to give them meaning and vice versa.

In A Christmas Carol:

When the ghost asked, "Why do you doubt your senses?"

Scrooge answered:

>"Because, a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats.  You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.  There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

*And I say...

Don't rush through to

The Feeling Good Part

Feel good about the growth. Feel good about the failure. Without which, there is not one shred of good.

The food is presented. The food is eaten. The food is digested. The intestine is long and winding...

The road is long. And it runs in circles.  

Sandra

Quoted from Sandra Elstree. The food is presented. The food is eaten. The food is digested. The intestine is long and winding... Sandra

And then naturally what comes out is...

Sandra, thanks for the great words!   All of that is really true, and to prove it, I actually went in and cut out two scenes, so now I'm down to 23 pages, but I don't care!  Because it felt good to be writing and knowing I had fixed some things enough to give me a better direction with the rest of the script.

Thanks again and good luck with your work as well!

Gary

I hope more people are working on it than are responding here. The 7WC is a great way to get a first draft out. I'm nearing page 55. I'm trying to push for a first draft by this weekend.

Quoted from RJ ATM I'm stuck at page 25 cause I have two paths I could choose with the script - the easy one (a simple one way direction) or the harder one (couple of different directions - was my original idea, but maybe overloading it).

I always thought this would be a great way to write a trilogy.  At the end of the first story, the hero is given a choice.  The second and third stories would be WHAT IF the hero took A or B.

The problem with writing it is that I'd have to commit to a trilogy.


Phil

Quoted from Grandma Bear I hope more people are working on it than are responding here. The 7WC is a great way to get a first draft out.

Agreed, and also a great way to get feedback.

Page 40 here, going well but not even close to finishing yet. I'm predicting a 120 page script. We'll see how it goes.

Upto page 33 woohoo

It's 6 weeks from now, right?

Mark