You will be writing in your head constantly, everyday, until you finish your screenplay. More importantly, the regular contact with your script will keep your mind focused on the world of your story. Sure, you might not be able to finish writing even one scene in fifteen minutes, but if you come back to the screenplay everyday for fifteen minutes, the scene work will get faster and the pages will add up. Anyone can find fifteen minutes in their day to write. It’s more important for me to write for 15 minutes a day, six days a week, than to write for five hours on Monday and not work again until the following Monday.įifteen minutes a day is such a small hurdle to overcome. Pushing that notion aside, Gray doesn't try to carve out these large chunks of time to get her writing done: Also, aspiring screenwriters may even drop out of the race if they believe they don't have enough dedicated time to get their writing done. The process of writing that first draft can easily slow to a crawl if a writer tries to hammer it out all at once. The moment of writing the screenplay finally arrives and determines whether your story preparation will survive the first draft. You have to put in several weeks to outline your story, develop your characters and create your world, making new discoveries along the way.
The process of writing a screenplay is very similar. The moment of the marathon arrives and puts all of those weeks of training to the test. To be able to run a marathon, you have to put in several weeks of training, building up your endurance over time, getting stronger each week. The marathon analogy is a good choice, but in my opinion, writing a script is more like training for a marathon. And one key to the approach is to realize what a marathon writing a script is. doesn’t have to do with days and hours so much as it has to do with attitude and approach. To me, it’s really about dedication and commitment to the craft and to working at it regularly to become the best you can be.
PAMELA GRAY WRITER PROFESSIONAL
In Buchanan's article, Bork doesn't outline a schedule, but instead offers his advice on how aspiring screenwriters should think of the craft if they want to become professional screenwriters: John Buchanan of Script Magazine interviewed professional screenwriters Erik Bork (Emmy winner for HBO's From the Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers) and Pamela Gray ( Conviction, A Walk on the Moon) and uncovered valuable perspectives on tackling the long haul of writing screenplays. Yet, ironically, after we have grappled with concept, story, structure, character development and setting, we still face the long process of, well, putting words on a page.
We have so much creative work to do before we even type word one of our screenplay. As aspiring screenwriters, we know it is so much more than putting words on a page. That is, until they actually try to write a screenplay. Short paragraphs, blocks of dialogue and all of that white space can lure new writers into the trap of believing that writing a screenplay just can't be that hard.
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