Okay I knew writing a screenplay was going to be harder than writing a novel, but I didn't...
Right lets start again.
I've been worrying about the fact that I don't yet have a full plot for my script frenzy script. In fact I'm not even sure I've got a plot at all, that I can shoehorn in to a film script. So I've been worrying and thinking and...well doing just about everything apart from actually writing it!
Then I released, this is all my internal editor speaking. This little chap is telling me that the idea I have is full of holes (which is true) and that I can't possibly write any of it down until it's perfect.
Well I've got the answer to this now. A film script that is full of holes, well I can't possibly write than can I? They'll never make a script that is full of holes in to a film Well of course they do! And I've got to remember that it's only a draft. Even the worlds best script started out as draft with holes in it. But finally the main thing I've got to keep in mind is that the action of writing causes ideas to form.
I discovered this in lasts years nanowrimo. I had a pretty good idea where this story started from, where it was going to end and how it was going to get there. However as I wrote it, the story quick left this planned path and took it's own route. I still feel that some of the best bits of this first draft of the story are the bits, that just kind of happened while I was writing it. It's almost like the wrote them selves.
So the fact that at the moment I only have the beginning of several scripts and vague ideas where they are going to end up is maybe a good thing?
I will find by the end of month. Now it's time to get busy with the words...