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I Finally Finished A Screenplay, Y'all!

After 2 1/2 weeks of collaborating with a friend on an idea, I finally did it.

Austin J Williams

Sep 06, 2018

University of Washington

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I finally did it!

If you've been reading for a while and seen one of my first posts, I tend to not finish screenplays.

And well, I did for once!

It took me 2 1/2 weeks to do so, and it feels oh so great! But what led me to this? Let's divulge shall we?

The year is 2012. I had just received a Macbook Pro in September. I immediately bought and downloaded from the App Store Apple's version of Microsoft Word: Pages. From there, I started to write what I thought was one hell of a story. It had drama, comedy and everything you would want in movie- or so I thought.

It was essentially my version of the UK hit series Skins! Now, if you're not familiar with Skins, it's this show on the UK station E4, and you might be lucky and find it on the BBC now and then. But this show in it's first series was everything. You had sex, drugs and literally rock n roll. It really was the teenage angsty drama in the early 2010's that everyone needed to watch, and had lot's of lesson's to be learned from it.

Anyways, I started to work on this screenplay for hours at a time on my laptop. I would spend hours trying to figure out what to write or how this would work for a film at the time. I didn't know the correct formatting for a screenplay and just wrote whatever felt natural or thought would fit. It took me and a few others at the end to make this into something resembling something that even FOX could pass on.

It took 4 years to finish it. That was my first screenplay and...it was terrible. My Friend Adrianna and her sister re-wrote most of it, but kept the general story intact.

This current one however, I learned from my previous mistakes and wrote my heart out and didn't stop for more than a couple days at a time. It's 25 pages, but it's a good 25 pages. MY co-creator Brandon and I put our heart and soul into it, creating something we could be proud of. He & I have been trying to get something going for a long time now and it finally feels like we've gotten some traction!

Stuck in a rut with your screenplay? Three words of advice: NEVER GIVE UP.

* John Cena Theme plays *

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Stuck in a rut with your screenplay? Three words of advice: NEVER GIVE UP.

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