So, I've been writing all my life but I haven't seriously started writing until about six months ago after I graduated from college. My brother and I decided that we should really pursue our goals in film and try to get something lifted off the ground.
The idea for us was to basically create a feature length screenplay that could be done with 10k or less. Ideally, we wanted to create something really awesome and unique like "Following" and submit that to Cannes, but reality seems to be saying something different.
It seems as though every time I write a screenplay, I'll mull it over in my head until I'm dissatisfied and no longer want to continue writing it. Its just really frustrating because you spend all those months creating it, only to tear it up and basically start all over again. This probably happened to me 10 times in the past six months, which is why I haven't developed a full screenplay. Its not that I can't complete a story. Its just that every time I do, I'll start editing it and then realize that it could be ten times better if I did x,y,z but then after I make all those changes, I realize that more changes should be made until I realize that I more or less have to write a new treatment for it and basically re-write the whole damn thing.
Is this what its like for everyone because I feel like I'm spending waaay more time on a story than I should be. I feel like I need to just dedicate myself to one thing and just roll with it, even if I know it could be ten times better.
The idea for us was to basically create a feature length screenplay that could be done with 10k or less. Ideally, we wanted to create something really awesome and unique like "Following" and submit that to Cannes, but reality seems to be saying something different.
It seems as though every time I write a screenplay, I'll mull it over in my head until I'm dissatisfied and no longer want to continue writing it. Its just really frustrating because you spend all those months creating it, only to tear it up and basically start all over again. This probably happened to me 10 times in the past six months, which is why I haven't developed a full screenplay. Its not that I can't complete a story. Its just that every time I do, I'll start editing it and then realize that it could be ten times better if I did x,y,z but then after I make all those changes, I realize that more changes should be made until I realize that I more or less have to write a new treatment for it and basically re-write the whole damn thing.
Is this what its like for everyone because I feel like I'm spending waaay more time on a story than I should be. I feel like I need to just dedicate myself to one thing and just roll with it, even if I know it could be ten times better.