Woman in White update.

So, Monday i tried to get Draft 4 completed but due to irritations and annoyances i couldn’t get my brain in gear to even think about it, i opened the Final Draft file and just stared at the screen. My headache grow and my frustration along with it, i think that as i was already frustrated before hand didn’t help as that also grow as i found i couldn’t get any writing done, and believe me, this is a project i want done.

Yesterday i was out all day so got zero writing done.

Today i was woken up nice and really early, not something i enjoy doing, so i could listen out for a fireplace to get delivered. I sat around until 14:30 when it came, knowing now that i can get on with my own life i opened up iTunes and plugged in my headphones turned up the volume to its highest level and started playing a new playlist of metal/rock music. 5 Albums from ‘Disturbed’. I do this so i can drown out all other noise, so i can only hear what i want to hear, in this case very loud Metal/Rock music.

I opened an already edited Draft 4 of ‘Woman in White’ and went straight to the point i had to re-write. I removed an entire scene, it needed to be changed. So i sat down and just started to write. I love it when that happens, it somehow feels more natural.

So today i completed draft 4 of ‘Woman in White’ using feedback i received from +Dan Dollar and +Sarah Skuseth (the ‘+’ refers to Google Plus) both of whom read draft 3 for me, a request i posted on Google+. Both gave great feedback, some of which i used, and some i didn’t. But thats how feedback works, you have to be able to see what will help and what either won’t help or is’n needed for your vision.

Another great thing about re-writing is the time factor. If we just made films based on a first or even a second draft then you’d sit watching your film wishing you could change a few things or a lot of things. The time you spend in re-writes means you spend far more time thinking about the project, making changes as you go. So hopefully if the script is made into a film, when you sit watching it, it’s closer to what you envisioned, and you don’t feel the need to want to change that much or anything.

But, no matter how many re-writes you go through you will always want to change something once you see a final film cut. Thats just the way the creative mind works i guess. We’re never really happy with our work, it could always use a little more work, a fine tuning, a tweak here and there. You just have to know when to say “It’s done” otherwise you’ll be re-writing it forever.