Screenwriting : My new screenplay by Amber Lucille Brown

Wow three days! Two years out from writing it is not bad at all. Congratulations. :)

I hope I don't end up writing twenty drafts, but you never know.

I did the same thing with my first teleplay. I told the producer I had written it already which wasn't... ahem...entirely true.

LOL Done that and doing it now! I hope to have 120 pages by Thursday (on page 11 now!) Someone put the coffee on, we'll sleep on Friday!

You go!

Jesus. That's not normal. But WTG!

But how long will it take to rewrite?

Why say "it can't be very good given the time I wrote it in"? Some of the greatest pieces of our literary tradition (anything by Charles Dickens, Stephen King, any modern romance writer) are written quickly. Lots of pro novelists can turn out an 70k novel in a week or two, though they might not admit it to people who won't understand. And how long does the average pro-screenwriter have to do a script when they're brought in to do a total rewrite for a movie that's in production and burning through cash every day they're not shooting?

There is no correlation between speed and quality. Or, if there is, it often works the opposite of the way people think: often things written quickly cut straight to the writer's subconscious and remove all of the baggage of editorial thoughts which might remove an element because it is too personal or too honest. One of my favorite pulp novelists (still in print long after his death) wrote a novel every month for 10 years... except somewhere in those 10 years he took a second job writing a novel every month... and was writing 2 novels a month for a few years! Many of those books are still in print, while other novels that may have taken a writer years to complete are not. Meanwhile: congratulations and I hate you for being able to write that fast.

That it all poured out of you in four days suggests to me the odds are it's probably a fine script. That's often the case with screenwriters, playwrights, and novelists who report a work nearly wrote itself over a very short number of days.

Thanks for all the kind and inspiring words. I am forty pages into the rewrite and I love this part of the process. I am having so much fun. I look forward to pitching it here soon.