Very proud of myself. I set a deadline and actually met it.
I have a complete full rough draft of the screenplay that I'm now revising!
Momentum started when Ben suggested I commit to writing just five minutes a day, just enough to get me started. But short enough so that it wasn't too overwhelming. It's a great way to beat writer's block: five minutes is easy! And I often work much longer than that, once I just sit down and do it.
Once that got things going and I started getting more pages behind me, I decided I set the deadline: have the full draft finished by the time I leave for Burning Man (this was year #11 for me -- it's my annual pseudo-religious holiday).
It required that I move up my daily dosage from five minutes to two whole scenes each day, in order to finish in time. That translated into an hour or three each day, but once I did a couple days and made progress, I was committed.
And even though I had all the other work I needed to complete before I left for nine days, and despite the additional work needed to pack and prep for Burning Man (a full-time job in itself), I did it.
Usually, I was up late, from midnight to 2 or 3am. But I got it done.
Of course, it helped enormously that I already had the whole script mapped out, scene-by-scene, in paragraph form. I already knew what happened in each scene, so all I had to do was write the actual dialogue and action.
Anyway now I'm revising it. Aiming to have a first draft that I can show the inner circle for review by Oct. 1.
Yikes. Another deadline. And a lot more work to do to get there.
