Consistency is the key

I over-achieved yesterday in compensation for a full weekend of working at the day/night job.

5 pages completed yesterday...puts me at a total of 75 thus far.

This is the part of the writing process I enjoy the most. Armed with a scene-by-scene breakdown of the script, a 4-page treatment and a detailed synopsis, I can now just sit in front of the computer, in my pink painted office (not my color choice, the house came like it and we're too busy to paint it another color just yet!) and let the story and characters do their thing.

I have such a hard time detailing character arcs throughout the duration of a 120 page feature script. I'm used to writing 15 page shorts, where I don't have much choice but to cram everything in within 15 minutes. Here I am spoiled with a whole two hours of screen time, where the audience can have the character traits, action and emotions spill out onto them over the course of an evening while they experience their story in real time. I never want my characters to be just standing around waiting for something to happen to them, I'm constantly concerned that they're not experiencing enough trauma, or drama, or life threatening events that we're not moving the story forward to the expected climax! But anyway....

I'm over halfway through the first draft. My characters have been communicating with me just fine these past two weeks and I don't want to stop the rolling ball just yet. We have 44 pages / 44 minutes of this story to experience together before it's locked onto paper.

Zero productivity is expected this weekend. Must-pick-up-pages starting Monday am.