The Top 10 Things I Hate to Write!

#10. Blog Entries

Not always but, every so often, when it’s late and I’ve realized I’ve forgotten to blog, the pressure is on to keep my daily 15+ year blogging streak intact.  The pressure!

#9. The First Draft of a Script

Getting started is the most daunting part but, once you get going, and provided you’re backed by a bulletproof outline, you can get into a groove.  And it can actually be a lot fun.

#8. Production Rewrites

This actor won’t be available for this scene.  This location will have to be switched.  We need to lose a page a half.  It can be challenging but, like figuring out a puzzle, it can be quite satisfied as well.

#7. The Script Polish

By this point, the changes are (hopefully) minor, so the process is relatively painless.

#6. The Script Outline

A little foreboding off the top and it does require creative leg work to flesh out those scenes, but like the first draft it can be fun if you get into a rythmn.

#5. The Beat Sheet

Can be like pulling teeth.  But once you get started, it’s not so bad.  Unless you hit a patch that has you spinning your creative wheels.

#4. The Follow-Up Query Email

“Hey, hope you’re well.  Don’t mean to be a bother, but it’s been six weeks since I sent you the script.  Just wondering if you’re still alive.”

#3. The Pitch

Make it thorough, professional, yet conversational.  Then forget half of what you wrote on the day of the actual pitch.

#2. The Pitch Deck

You’re basically writing a sales document.

#1 – The Second Draft

Your script is the Jenga and the notes are all the blocks at the bottom you have to rearrange.

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