Sounds good, George.  Keep us posted.  Are you cool with writing teh entire script from start to finish in 2 weeks?  I think it will be tough.  I was hoping to have a full 4 weeks when I wrote the first page.

Best of luck, adn keep us in the know.

Probably the hardest part of writing with a day job is finding the time to do it. Hence, I finished the treatment a lot later than I wanted to. This isn't because of any writer's block, but just because I am struggling to find the time to work on it. Anyway, I sent the treatment to Randy just now to see what he thinks. There are still a couple of development holes that I just need to find places to plug when I'm writing. Plot's fine at this point (so I think anyway).

Once Randy gives his feedback on the plot, I should be able to burn through the scripting part. I have 8 days left at the moment, so I hope he comes back quick with the feedback. 10-20 pages per day is totally doable. It'll need a rewrite, of course, but the parameters I started with (for the OMC idea) did not specify a final draft, but a completed one that's ready to be ripped into and revised.

I will have to say, the personal deadline has lent a sense of urgency to it that did not really exist before. Kind of nice having a deadline.

Quoted from George Willson I will have to say, the personal deadline has lent a sense of urgency to it that did not really exist before. Kind of nice having a deadline.

I think the thing about a deadline is that it forces you to do it.

The quality, is going to depend upon the individual of course, but you don't know until you try.

Thanks for the update and wow, George. That's impressive!

Sandra

Well, I was lazy this weekend. Rodney did get back to me with some changes he wants, so I got those back to him this morning, and I started writing on stuff he didn't want changed, and I'm 11 pages deep at this point. Not sure that I'll make the Friday deadline, but I should be darn close.

C'mon, George!  You can and will meet the deadline!  80 pages to go.  No problem.  I'm cheering you on.

KEEP GOING!  DON'T GIVE UP!  NO MORE SLEEP UNTIL YOU'RE ALL DONE!!!!!

Well, I'm currently at the top of page 34 on the script and the bottom of page 6 of 18 on my treatment. At this rate, it might work out to just over 90 pages. But that makes me well on my way to finishing on time if I keep up this pace. It's not that hard since I've really already written out the entire plot and most of the basic dialogue. It's just a matter of converting those 18 pages (or remaining 12) of block paragraphs into a screenplay.

But I'm a third of the way there...

And it's due when?  This weekend?

How many hours per day are you putting into it?

My personal due date is Friday. And the hours I put in are as many as I can fit in to doing it. I have a goal of hitting at least 30 pages per day, though. I made it yesterday, and I'm up to 43 at this point for today, so in another 15 pages or so, I can relax a little. However, based on my computation for how the treatment is translating to script, it might come out to just over 100 pages. We'll see. Like I said, though, it's writing itself at the moment since I'm just following the treatment I wrote out.

My goals are to have it written out by Thursday and read back through it on Friday to look for typos and other goofs that you're supposed to catch on a re-read before I let Randy have a look while I take a break from it and write the Fempiror 2 novel.

You're a machine, GEorge!  Nice work.  Keep at it...you're almost there.

Make sure you remember to A). Breathe, B). Go to the bathroom occasionally.

Anything else is optional.

Here at the top of writing day 3, I'm at the top of page 72 and the bottom of page 13 of 18 of the treatment. As page 18 isn't a full page, I've got to trudge through about 4 page worth of treatment to fill at least another 18 pages. I don't see that as a problem since the other treatment pages translated pretty consistently to 5-6 pages each. Add to that in the case of these pages, there is a lot of action that will be 100% based on whatever they can do with the location, so that part of the script will have the "they fight" syndrome where it's left totally up to the director as to how that will play out. I'm giving some story beats to get through it, but since I don't really know the location and how much freedom they'll have with it, I kind of have to leave it up to them.

However, I'm well on track to meet my goal to finish the script today and proof it tomorrow before giving Randy a weekend read.

Good work, George.  Sounds like you will be successful.  I wasn't so sure you were going to make it last weekend, but you really kicked things into overdrive!

Deadlines help do that. I wasn't so sure last weekend either...

And done. Finished it yesterday afternoon, actually. The final pages translated into fewer pages than the earlier ones, and it worked out to 89 pages total, although there is a paragraph in there that would actually work out to possibly quite a few pages if I knew the location's complete floorplan and just how badly I could tear it up. As it is, it says, "I defer to you to let the creatures chase them through the house for awhile." Ok, so a tad longer than that, but I actually made several notes to the director specifically when I wasn't sure what they would physically have available. For instance, when it comes to weapons, I mention blunt objects, instead of being specific. I'd never get away with it in a real spec, but since this was his idea to begin with and let's face it, he only wants a framework around which to shoot those fun scenes anyway, I can get away with it.

I'm going to read it through today to catch typos and some basic inconsistencies that come out of a first draft, and then let him have a look. Bottom line is I did it.

Challenge met.

Good work, George!  I'm impressed.  You made your deadline...with time to spare.

Now let's hope that Randy loves it!  I'm sure he will.