SuperViva Success Story: Goal to Write a Screenplay. Check!
This exciting end of 2007 success story comes from someone who started her life list about a year ago on SuperViva:
For years I’ve wanted to write a screenplay. Every time I see a movie I really love, I’d say: “I wish I’d written that!” I’ve even had partial outlines (plus one complete outline) for several movies sitting in my computer for about seven years now.
In November I got serious about it and set a goal of writing the first draft for my first screenplay in one month flat. On November 7 I posted this goal on my SuperViva page. After some prep and self-education, I started the actual writing on November 20.
I used various tools and techniques to keep me motivated. One that really helped was posting frequent smaller goals on my SuperViva page. I would always look forward to checking those off and this trick really spurred me to the finish line.
Today, December 18 at 2:30 pm, I finished my first draft. Yay! I even came in a little ahead of schedule.
During the month, I had a crisis where I realized that my original ending from the outline was going to be too insipid. I lost a whole week of writing trying to figure out the problem. Finally, I read some advice from a screenwriting teacher who said that this is a common occurrence and the solution is to “Just do it. Write a crappy ending, just to get to the last page and write THE END. You can fix it in the rewrites.” This gave me permission to be reckless and go for it, which I did. I wrote in total creative abandon — and the reward was that my ending turned out to be far better than I could have hoped for while I was sunk in my crisis.
The feeling that I HAD TO check off that SuperViva ultimate goal was what stopped me from even considering flunking out.
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