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Posted by: Niles_Crane (Guest), August 25th, 2009, 1:38am

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!

Posted by: rendevous, August 25th, 2009, 1:46am; Reply: 1

NC,

I think you're in the right place.

Congratulations. I hope it doesn't take another seven years for it to reoccur.

All that sounds good.

I'll look forward to reading it.

Re

Posted by: Blakkwolfe, August 29th, 2009, 9:33am; Reply: 2

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.

Posted by: elis, August 29th, 2009, 9:54am; Reply: 3

That instant sense of achievement is great to share!
I will keep an eye out for it too.
Keep writing, you are now on a roll :)

Posted by: Ledbetter (Guest), August 29th, 2009, 9:06pm; Reply: 4

Niles,

Well done my friend. The moment a free flowing thought roams into a word...MAGIC.

Keep the connection open between yourself and the word and a few pages becomes a few more.

Smile and enjoy the moment :-)

Shawn.....><

Posted by: slabstaa (Guest), August 29th, 2009, 11:38pm; Reply: 5

cool stuff.

can't wait to read it.

Posted by: Takeshi (Guest), August 30th, 2009, 6:49am; Reply: 6

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.

Posted by: Niles_Crane (Guest), August 30th, 2009, 7:22am; Reply: 7

Thanks for all these posts.

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.

Who knows what else I may have written by then?