The screen-writing part of the 29 challenge is probably the
hardest part for me. It’s not that I don’t enjoy screen-writing, it’s something
I've always wanted to do, but it’s just finding the time to sit down and
write. And this month was one week
shorter as I started the challenge on the 11th, so I'm even more
pleased that I got the pages written!
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This month has been a bit unconventional with writing 29
pages. Around the middle of August I started writing a web series called Team
Talk Something or Nothing, which is a sports show with a twist. It’s an idea
that I first had at uni, but then the format and title just didn't work, so I
scrapped the idea. Years later I start thinking about it again, change the
format, the title and style and it starts to flow. Before October I had written
¾ of the series, so it was a case of writing additional episodes and extending
others to meet the page limits I set. Of course nothing is perfect on the first
draft (except Erin Brockovich, which the version they use in the film is the
first draft), so I'm going to leave it a month or so and then look at it again
with fresh eyes. I’d already started making notes on how to improve it, but I
thought if I keep tweaking it, then I’ll never get a first draft complete.
The second part of the screenplay writing this month is for
one of my uni friends, who will discover in a few days that I have written a
couple of short scripts to do with Star Wars. Why Star Wars? Well my friend
shares his name with an up and coming actor who has been cast in the new Star
Wars film.
The actor is also in the series Girls, so whenever that show is
aired, my friend gets more twitter followers. With references from our uni
course, and an unusual travel guide I'm sure my friend will find it
entertaining.
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