Day Eighteen: Your most recent
achievement achieved
Today I finished of my script for
Script Frenzy. 100 pages of script in 24 days, not bad for someone that has
never done it before.
It all started when I decided to
participate in National Novel Writing Month last November after seeing a report
on BBC Breakfast. I had heard of the event before, but at the time I didn’t
have the time or an idea. A few days before I saw the report, an idea had
started to form and idea that for once I thought that I had the potential to
finish, seeing the report for NaNoWriMo was the push that I needed.
Once I started writing, I couldn’t
stop, the story just flowed and I hit 50,000 words on 26th November
and finished on the 30th with 50,780 words. I thought that that was
a pretty big achievement. I’ve never written anything that long in my entire
life. Even my fan fictions from years ago that seemed that long were only about
20,000 words. Once I had my novel, I saw Script Frenzy advertised and I decided
to give that a go, “how hard can it be?” I thought. “Writing the novel was the
hard part”. I was wrong, writing the script was so much harder. Not only have I
been faced with the flaws of my novel head on, which I had been avoiding by not
editing my novel, but I also discovered just how unlikeable one of my main
characters is. In November he seemed like a lovable rogue, but now, I hate him
and he really doesn’t deserve the other main character. Though of course, now I
have a much better idea of what does need work and I feel ready now to take
creating a second draft more seriously. I also know now that the working title ‘Meet
me on the Clifton’ should probably go, the affection that I felt for it in
November has officially worn off.
Since my dreams of working in
science are quickly drifting further and further away from me it would be great
if I could carry on working on my novel, maybe sending it off to publishers if
it ever gets to a point where I would want to do that, or maybe I will publish
myself for e-books. I think it would be pretty cool if I knew that someone was
out there reading something that I’ve written.
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