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Never Enough
I've finished script number five. Hooray for me. After my most recent draft, a practically page one rewrite, I feel confident. I only forsee one more polish in the future. But I'm taking a month from it to read more books and ruminate about script number six, which has already formed a story and place in my head. Hell, I've got seven and eight sitting on deck too.
Currently I'm reading Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach and Story by Robert McKee. But as I wonder through the Writers Store I can't help but see book after book I feel compelled to read. I have the same problem when I'm on netflix, adding movie after movie to my Que.
It seems as though I cannot write fast enough, read enough books, watch enough movies, or even relax enough. There has to be some name for that. Some personality type or psychological profile I fall into.
Does anyone else have this problem? Granted there are worse things to suffer from than ambition and a healthy work ethic.
Comments
Dear Jeff,
Congratultions on #5. The vast majority of screenwriters don't hit "their stride" until the fifth or sixth script. That is because the human mind when searching for an answer will go to 3 or 4 recent (past few years) solutions to see if they will solve the problem. So it's part of human nature that most screenwriters first four scripts are subconscioulsy derivitave of something they've seen in the recent past.
Again scripts #5 & #6 are when you really start to be really creative.
I have a web-site: www.film-indusgry-excellence.com (remember the dashes, then click on SCREENWRITING), there you will find a place to sign up for a FREE 5 article package that shows you how to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and disvcover where you are on the learning curve. One of the articles is entitled "How to Make Your Writng Eleven Times More Successful.
Another section discusses Mastering Low Budget Filmmaking, a Seminar At Sea. Please review, and let me know what you think.
I am also interested in learning more about your storyboarding. Please contact me at jameskshea@roadrunner.com
Kindest regards,
Jim Shea