I know what you mean about having a structure planned out. Right now I have a whole wall covered with index cards. My workspace looks like a war room. This is the first time that I’ve worked on a script that was pretty meticulously planned out. And what a surprise: my scenes are hitting at all the right beats.

However, I’m don’t know if I’m hitting 2000 words a day, but I haven’t been keeping track. Either way, this one is almost done and then I am going straight into the next one.

One of the interesting things about the Billy Wilder book that I didn’t mention in the post is that a lot of those movies were in production before the end of the movie was even written. Many times they were writing the third act at night after shooting all day.

I really should proof read before I submit….

And it truly is amazing what a person can do when they treat writing like a job rather than vague artistic pursuit. At the beginning of the year I decided to write 2000 words a day everyday until I completed the first draft of a novel. I would get up, unhook my modem from my computer (this I found was key) and stay at my computer until I had finished writing my daily quota. Forty-five days later I had completed my first novel. Looking back, I probably would have been better served not making up the story as I went along, but it definitely proved to me that all it takes to finish any project is the willingness to sit down and actually do it.