This is the 8th blog post in my screenwriting series, it all started here

Day 19 -  I finished the first draft!!!!

I am printing it out as we speak, er, as I write this!  It’s short in the word count department, but the beginning and the end of my story met in the middle and the pieces are in place. It’s definitely a first draft.  A really rough first draft. I know that there are huge plot holes, (ha ha, plot holes, instead of potholes? Is that a thing people say in the screenplay business? If not they definitely should, it’s funny).

Anyway, the plot-holes will have to be repaired at some point, but for now I’m doing a little happy dance while my pages are printing out. Whoo-hoo!

I know it’s not very ‘green’ of me.  But I feel like I need to see it. Hold it. Touch it. Stare at it in all its glory.

It is a beautiful thing.

1st draft!!

So that’s what a screenplay looks like.

Now what?

First, a glass of champagne. A celebration. Holy shit. I did it. It might suck.  It might be the shittiest screenplay in the history of the Universe. But it’s MY shitty screenplay.  I wrote a screenplay.  I wrote a screenplay in 19 days! I finished it within the year.  I was inspired last year at Sundance Film Festival to finally write my screenplay and I did it.

I fucking did it.

Holy shit.

Now what do I do?

Edit. Edit. Edit.

NEXT: The Unbearable Heaviness of Editing- Click here*