My current screenplay That I have been working on, I'm now into the eight month region...

Quoted from R.E._Freak The Journey trilogy, which I consider just one really long movie. Been working on it for going on ten years now, and just started again working on about the twelfth write.

Whoa. May I ask what it is about? What genre?

Quoted Text Whoa. May I ask what it is about? What genre?

It is my overly long, overly bloated zombie epic.

I posted my first draft of "Grave Mishaps" here, and got some valuable feedback. My second draft still didn't satisfy me, but the third draft did. That's where I'm leaving it. I agree there's a point you have to stop tinkering, realize you've told the story the way you meant to, and move on to other works.

I took it off here, because the former comments are now obsolete. Final version will be posted later on. I didn't keep track of how long all this took. I know it was less than six months.

Thanks to all who helped in the process.

Monette

Quoted from guyjackson You have to be careful because I think every writer's worst enemy is himself.  You will always find someting to critique when you are writing.  You just have to push through and realize when enough is enough and the script is as good as it will be to your best abilities.

No doubt about that.  I had blasted through 50 pages of my feature in about 2 weeks, then November came and I wrote about 10 pages in that entire month.  December yielded only about 1.5 and January was good for about 2.5.  Most of the issue was wondering if I should radically change the step outline and treatment after I got to 50 pages and got feedback on the treatment from members of my class.  

Then I got married in December, the holidays and honeymoon were a complete bust for writing.  Now I'm gearing up for actual filming of a different short and did an outline Saturday night for a new original short.

All excuses, yes I know.  But it is very easy to make no progress if you're the slightest bit unhappy with the direction its headed.  It's likely I'm going to finish my Fortnight script before going back to Logan St.

-Bob

it took me about 6 months from start to finish to write my action flick "Divine Revelation."  What started out as a religious thriller turned into a blasphemous story where I took Bible verses and crafted them into what I was writing.  I like the story, just not that part of it.  Needless to say, I never posted it on here.

I would love to do another, more excessible rewrite to it.  Oh well...

Quoted from Jonathan Terry it took me about 6 months from start to finish to write my action flick "Divine Revelation."  What started out as a religious thriller turned into a blasphemous story where I took Bible verses and crafted them into what I was writing.  I like the story, just not that part of it.  Needless to say, I never posted it on here. I would love to do another, more excessible rewrite to it.  Oh well...

This sounds kind of good. Any chance I could read it?

Diplomatic Immunity and it has been on and off for 8 months.  I finally finished it and I was so glad to kick it off my work in progress list.  I had done several others in between but this one took forever!

When I was 13 or 14 I wrote a 119 page horror script called "Frantic" which was my second full length screenplay. It took about a year and a half or two years....Shortly after finishing it my computer got a virus and screwed up all my text files...it was completely lost. Now, I always back up my files. Looking back, It's better that I lost it because it probably wasn't that great.  

My first script probably took me the longest.  I did it during second semester for an independent study with my friend in school so we were working at least four hours a week (most of the time a lot more).  It took us the entire semester to put out 100 pages.

I never ever posted the script because I wouldn't want to be kicked off the site for the terribleness of it.  We only knew very basic formatting, had never written a script before, nor ever read one.  On top of that we didn't do any real pre-planning on it so there's no character developement and a ridiculous amount of scenes (over 40 if I remember correctly).  At the beginning of this school year we got some people to proofread it (before we realized its terrible formatting anyway).  I've always wanted to redo it, but I don't have time to do the work it requires so I'll just stick to my shorts for now.  Over this coming summer though I plan to do a complete rewrite and the way things are going, it will still be my first feature length script.

So it took about 6 months to write the first draft (including planning) and then another 3 to get it proofread and now I'm going to be rewriting it completely later, so it'll probably be about a year and a half to two years overall before it's actually done.

-Pat

I've been working on a script for 4 years that has been changing and changing. I have three others I've written in that time as well.

Same here, I've been on one script, Cover of Darkness, for about 2 years and everytime I get toward the middle, the first of the script has to be rewritten AGAIN.  Besides, my research for this script is always changing details and characters.  But I love it!

Every other script I average 1-3 months.

Quoted from Just_Initials Same here, I've been on one script, Cover of Darkness, for about 2 years and everytime I get toward the middle, the first of the script has to be rewritten AGAIN.  Besides, my research for this script is always changing details and characters.  But I love it!

Don't go back until you've finished your script.  Otherwise, you'll never get it done.


Phil

I'm hearin' ya Phil,
Just that my first scene explains my last scene... But I think it's locked down now,

Word!

Complete the first draft, even if it means contradicting yourself in the story.  Change it in the rewrite.  It's faster this way.


Phil