On Writing : My First Real Screenplay That Spent Years Trying To Be A Book by Debbie Elicksen

I have finally organized some notes, stories, thoughts into something I can work with. I've been procrastinating a project for about a decade. Thanks to this community, I am looking at it with a different eye. Instead of writing what I know -- books -- I will look at the material in the lens of a screenplay. That seemed to make all the difference in my ability to tackle it. I'm at the what will go into the acts stage and then determine if it will be a limited series or whatever.

I think I also know how I will tell the story. In using the elements I learned from the webinars, and lounge feeds, and especially the Netflix series on writing to budget. Now, I might be able to craft the story, but it doesn't mean the actual screenplay won't suck. lol. Other than a couple practice runs, I am diving in for the first time. I guess you could say a treasure hunt to my storage unit, where I found some old fiction stories I wrote (and I wrote a few), typing them into the digital archives (they were not computerized), and then finding (no accident) The Screenwriter's Bible by David Trottier, it was a sign to get off my duff and follow my Stage 32 peeps into this journey. Funny, I'm not as scared as I used to be. Go figure?

Thanks for listening, or rather reading.