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This week's Answer: The
Unfinished Finished Screenplay Trent,
thanks for contacting me and bringing up a subject that
many writers must contend with, namely: finishing a
screenplay. (Does your screenplay, by any
chance, happen to be titled, "Endless
Screenplay"? Just thought I'd ask.)
"Finally Finishing." That's an
exceptionally interesting phrase that you might want to
look a little more closely at. That actually may be
the crux of your problem. Trying to finish can truly
drive you crazy. I'm a big fan of seeing finishing a
script as:
stopping
writing for the time being on a screenplay that you may
never touch or look at again or could completely rewrite
it the next day, especially if somebody wants to pay you a
lot of money to do so.
There's no need to drive
yourself crazy over trying to finish a script. Even
when you think you've finished a screenplay, once it's in
the hands of a producer, he may come back to you and ask
you to write a plethora of new scenes, cut others, and
even possibly want you to only leave one section of your
original screenplay that you agonized over for months,
trying to "finally finish" it.
And that section might be the "FADE
IN:"
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