So I haven't hit the writers block wall yet but I can see it coming. I'm on that road we call writing and up ahead on the writer's gps is a traffic block, a section of the road where my vehicle of story will be stuck. I can see it coming yet I haven't planned an alternate route.
Is it strange to suddenly have an awesome focus on my progress with my senior project script? Or am I just getting excited about one thing to avoid another? I think I just asked the same question twice when I already know the answer. Obviously.
Anyway, 25 pages are done and the story has slowed down. The genre is uncertain (on the page, but not in my mind) and I feel the music O listen to while writing it has had a large effect on it's meaning and tone. If these things are true then should I be in control, or am I just choosing not too. I just finished principal photography on a short film we're making for my junior-class project. I'm excited to see where they take the footage in the post stages but not looking forward to seeing my own mistakes.
I don't have the drive or the passion to put 110% into my feature length script, but I really want to make it a good one. Screenwriting to me is as important as film making. I'm not showing a hundred pages at the senior show, though, but only 15 minutes or so. Is my mind ready to handle a 90-minute story? Should I be reading Shakespeare or the Old Testament to fully understand the limited combinations of story and how I can adapt one with my own unique twist? Probably. My drive for this script will come soon but I fear as I grow closer to senior project, my motivation will diminish.
Good writing is all about rewriting. I took this class to challenge my abilities with staying on top of my work and next term will prove that. To grow as a screenwriter and to become a greater story teller is important to me. I see the wall however and I don't look forward to climbing over it. Plus rewriting is gonna be tedious, I can't wait. Screenwriters have got to be crazy to want to do all this work, but really is there any other choice? I guess it's just something i'll have to do.
