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Declare Your Wins!
– Finished 1st Draft
– Finished 2nd Draft – Solving Problems
– Finished 3rd Draft – Chronological Edits
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Finished the First Draft! 🎉
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Congrats!!
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I’ve finished the first draft, and well on my way to finishing the second, and have fallen back a day or two and always managed to catch back up! I plan to be there on Day 30 at the finish line!!!
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Congratulations Kevin!!!!
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I finished my first draft!
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I became a grandma!
So, back later to this. ❤
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Congratulations. Looks like your whole family has that creation thing going. 🙂
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Finished 1st Draft!
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I finished my entire story, all four acts, which I’m thrilled about. Life took me physically out of action for the past week but my mind never stopped working.
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I’m in the same boat. But the time away resulted in some great insights about the project!
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I feel super drained and incredibly satisfied after I complete something creative too!
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I was breezing along, then had a few speed bumps–thought I didn’t become a grandma–at the end of act 3. I’ve resumed and should be done with the first draft in a couples of days.
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Rewrote 1st episode of TV Pilot, wrote 2nd episode am half way through episode 3.
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I’ve finished the first draft and discovered that I want to make some major changes! And, I have no idea what they are but I know I will in the near future!!! Yay!!!
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Finished my 1st Draft!
Now 2nd draft is DONE!
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– Finished 2nd Draft – Solving Problems
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Being creative everyday… edited a 2 minute short, also taking Hal’s thriller class, and very smudgy first draft! Wahoo!
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I’m halfway through finishing my first draft and I’m continuing to move forward!
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I’m still working on my first draft, but I feel so empowered, thanks to these Zoom videos! I so appreciate the encouragement and empowerment techniques, Hal! Thank you!
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I made progress on the first draft, applied the rules and wrote for hours. I did not berate myself for what I wrote. I made peace with my lost time. I celebrated moving forward.
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I finished my first draft, but I still have a few missing scenes to fill in. But I did get the 4 acts finished with a mixture of 10 – 20%. quality. Pretty amazing process.
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I’m back on the path to seeing daylight, but I’ve learned so much I’m calling it a pre-win til I finish it. 👍
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I finished Lessons 1 through 17 Assignments! Now I’m excited to get going on the next one, Lesson 18! All the way through this course, I have looked forward to working on and completing each assignment.🤩 Celebrating by getting right on it… now!
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Progress today. The climax is looking pretty good. I’m looking forward to when I get to Draft 2 to fill in the missing scenes and find out what happens between the Act 3 turning point and the climax.
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Finished the first draft today. Way fun. Feels good. Really good.
Also emailed my tax info to my accountant. Also fun: Looks like a decent refund this year.
Two wins in one day.
Now, on to the next draft.
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I’ve made my way through all the Draft lessons the best I could. My account isn’t working correctly so I can’t read the actual lesson. I did, however, go through the script for each lesson based on what we learned previously. I’m super excited to have gotten this far. Now, I’m going to take the dialogue class to see if I can beef up the dialogue a little. Then, I’ll take the leading role class when it’s available in April. I want to get the script in the best possible shape I can.
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Done with My Finished 3rd Draft – Chronological Edits! Ready for feedback 🙂
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I finished my first draft! It took me a month and two days, but it’s done. Now it’s on to second draft improvements.
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Day 49–made it through to the point of starting the chronological edit. The hardest part for me was that I left a bunch of placeholders between the middle of act 3 and the start of act 4, and going back and filling is missing scenes is something I’m really not used to. I mean, every script (this was was No. 27) has missing scenes, but this is a thriller and they really have to line up.
The subsequent drafts went a bit more easily, but I found it difficult to separate scenes from structure from character, it felt like I was going back and forth between drafts. Still, the process worked. As I was puzzling over getting through from the middle of act 3 to the beginning of act 4, I kept having to re-outline–and then sat looking at the final outline, I realized that the last word I’d typed was the answer.
It took more than 30 days to get here, but out of all the scripts I’ve written, I’m pretty sure this is the fastest I got to this point. My guess is that the next one I do will go faster.
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OK, the Big Win. 30-day screenplay finished in 54 days and sent to my writing partner.
A screenplay that I first tried writing 27 years ago. Feels good.
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