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I really wanted to tell someone this. Not sure if this is the right place, but anyhoo.
I have just written a short screenplay (it's 7.37 UK time, and I wrote it between 6.05 and 7.22). A few pages, that is all. But this is the first completed script I have written in seven years. Everything else I have written in that period has just died out before I have got anywhere with it.
I woke up this morning with the idea complete in my head. Start to finish, and all I had to do was power up Celtx and type it out.
I will tinker with it a bit - but not too much I think - and export it to pdf, and hopefully will have it up and running on SS before too long.
I am really chuffed this morning. And it's payday too!
Is being "chuffed" a good thing? Like being excited, pumped, jazzed, psyched and such? It always feels good to start something and see it too completion.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Dove Chocolate Wrapper
Well done. You should treat yourself to a movie, restaurant or brothel.
But seriously, that's excellent. It's funny I was talking to a guy about this very thing tonight. He's agreed to co-write a feature with a friend and earlier this week they both agreed to do X amount of work by Sunday and then discuss it with each other. Anyway, my friend spent all week feeling anxious about doing it but hadn't done anything and was thinking about telling his co-writer that he was going to pull out when he called. So the co-writer rings him this morning and my friend told him to call back at five. Then he sat down and hammered out about five pages. He said after that he felt great and couldn't understand why he didn't just sit down and do it in the first place. It's always like that. We know the only way to get things done is to do it and we know it'll make us feel great. Yet we (as in me) procrastinate.
Since the 25th, when I started this thread, I have written two more shorts. I think it comes to around 20 pages in total, less probably. Which doesn't seem much until you put it in context of having written zero in seven years. Then three project in less than a week.
The first was "The Hunger Artist" - it and the second, "Rest My Eyes in Shades of Green" are now up in the Short thread of the Board.
The third, which I completed about an hour ago, is called (wait for it) "The Ducks Come Out to Groove About"! As submissions are temporarily suspended (due to OWC I assume), this'll have to wait until September 5th before I can submit it.