I’ve been working on a rewrite of my latest script. Once again, I’m killing my darlings like crazy.
My subplot is totally new (I had to kill of a major character people liked and replace him with a love interest for my protagonist),
I’ve cut some elements that I hope will help bring out the traits of the secondary characters. My protagonist/antagonists have remained the same
for the most part.
The point of all this is that writing is hard, rewriting can be hell. We all have this moment of “Should I still be trying to do this?”
But, I think the key is if you have to do this to get you through the day, then you must do it. If you want to make a million bucks, there are
a million other ways to do it easier/faster.
I’ve been putting in 3-5 hours a day on this thing and I’ve barely scratched
the surface. But, in the process of slashing and burning, I’ve found serendipity
intercedes and the light bobble(My old landlord called lightbulbs
this term) goes off.
This rambling blog entry is just sitting out here to tell you
all to keep writing and don’t worry, we all have, as Blake Snyder puts it, “Dark night of the script.”
You have to power through if you need to, but if you can’t, either the idea
is not worth it, or you don’t really want to be a screenwriter.
