It’s a good feeling to finish a project.
A screenplay, a novel. Doesn’t matter. There’s this HUGE feeling of “I did it.” It’s a feeling of relief.
“It’s done.”
You put 90 days into a novel, and it’s done.
You put two weeks into a screenplay, and it’s done. I think the fastest I’ve ever worked on a screenplay was ten days. Tune in tomorrow for much more on that!
Of course, when you finish a novel, a screenplay, it’s not done. You’ve still got a lot of work to do. You’ve got editing. Re-writes.
But essentially, the story is told, on paper, and now you can relax. Editing is the fussy series of “is this the right word?”
But Friday Aug. 17 marked a huge moment for me – essentially I wrote the One Nation project, five full length motion pictures in 16 months. I was a little embarrassed that my goal for the last script was 100 pages, but that was naive. I thought i could tell all of it- in 100 pages. It took 110, and I had to omit one of the most crucial parts to make everything fit!
It was a HUGE feeling of relief, happiness, far more than any other novel or screenplay I’ve written. I can only imagine the writers of Band of Brothers felt the same, writing that.
So, learn to cherish that feeling. Learn to love that feeling. It will help propel you when you’re stuck in the maunder of the middle/
