Journey continues...

The contest took an excruciatingly long time to respond back: 7 months. Again I listened to the experts. And wrote another script. And all those millions of ideas went into other log lines and outlines and plot lines. By the time I got my response I had another script under my belt, and 5 fully developed script outlines. My script beat out 75% of the competition, over 3000 scripts fell in my wake. And this was my very first feature script! The thrill of a reader saying, “Hey, this is pretty good,” left me elated and anxious about the finals. Alas, my script failed to place. But I requested the reader’s feedback. A godsend, the feedback gave me the insight of a true film industry professional. In his notes, the reader stated that he would have given the script a recommend status up until the middle of Act II. Then all Hell broke loose. He found several expository mistakes that needed fixing before he could recommend the script. Remember. Show, don’t tell. So instead of throwing in the towel in anger, I did what the experts said. I rewrote the script, leaving in the good stuff that the reader liked and yanked out all the babble, replacing it with a cleaner narrative. And the rewrites continue…