Rewriting Again

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

After drifting aimlessly for a while, I decided to go back and rewrite my After Alice script. I tend to say that I like rewriting more than I like writing. I guess the grass always looks greener on the otherside, because I am missing the days of staring out at a blank page.

What should I keep? What should I toss? I keep second guessing myself. The whole process feels very overwhelming right now. I guess all I can do is work hard and hope that in the end I have made it something better and not something worse.

First Draft Almost Completed

Ten more scenes and I will be finished with the first draft of my latest spec. This is my third feature length screenplay and it definitely has the most potential of any I have worked on thus far. This has made me feel a certain amount of pressure not to screw it up. I so badly want to do justice to such a great concept.

The script is going to need plenty of rewriting and polishing, but I am quite pleased overall. I will just be happy to move on to the next phase. I prefer rewriting to writing.

Austin, Austin, Austin

Last week I sent two scripts off to the Austin Film Festival. I hope to attend the festival this year. Among the panelists will be William Broyles Jr., Audrey Wells and Eric Roth. It will be very educational, no doubt. I am sure there will be many interesting people to meet at such a gathering as well. Yet, I always visualize myself as the girl sitting alone at the table in the corner. I never feel like I fit in. I tend to imagine people looking down their noses at me, if they look at all, wondering what I am doing there. Something of a Sanjaya, but without the great hair.

In any case, today I am beginning to work on a fourth rewrite of my last spec. We received some very interesting and helpful notes over the weekend and I look forward to implementing some of them.