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Old 12-29-2007, 05:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
tbushmoney
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Lately I've been a bit frustrated. I'm an aspiring screenwriter and I've spent the last 2 years attempting to write a script. I've got the story completely planned out, I have the entire thing outlined, I know how the entire thing goes, I've read all the screenwriting books, taken college courses, I know story structure inside and out, heck I can't even watch movies the same without deconstructing them storywise and analyzing them. But for some reason whenever I sit down to write my script.... I can't do it. I feel the story inside of me, aching to get out. I've written the first 15 pages of the script, over and over again, but I can't get past that point. I don't know what it is, but it's frustrating, because I know I have alot of potential and it's busting at the seams to get out of me. I write the first 15 pages, stop, and can't write any more even though I know where it goes after that.
I decide to re-write the first 15 pages in hopes that more will come but it never does. I get really nervous and frantic lately when I sit down to write and I can't even write a single thing! I get so stressed out but I'm honestly not sitting there thinking like "oh this is going to suck, blah blah blah, i can't write" no! I'm usually pretty excited when I go to begin writing because it's usually after I run the story through my head and i get pumped.

But i sit down and just can't do it. I have some kind of block or something that I'm not realizing that is stopping me. How do I get past this? It's really straining me! I already have another script ready to write (although same thing happens when i try to write that one). I just this entire story out of me and written and finished. There's no way it should've taken me 2 years to finish this!
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