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New screenwriters (or any kind of writer) discover a new experience once you've nearly finished a draft or actually completed one. You hate what you wrote.
You loathe it. And you really get down on yourself for having written such crap and you question why you even started the project, let alone stuck with it.
And now you've invested too much much to abandon it so you show it to a friend or teacher or the script consultant you've hired who has been encouraging you and telling you that you're doing very good work and with the exception of some tweaking here and there and maybe a better defined end of Act Two event and a strong middle of Act Three surprise you're almost done.
But you're still in the middle of hating what you wrote.
What's the solution?
Time. Usually we start to hate what we've written right after we REALLY LIKED what we wrote. It's like a hangover. The drinking the night before was fun, but the next morning we're cursing ourselves for having pissed away all that money on booze and all that time on meaningless chatter.
But then the hangover ends and we start the next day with a new and pure sense of being and things doing look so glum.
That's how to handle that period when you hate your work. Go with it. Pinpoint what exactly isn't working. Bite the bullet and fix it, then, lo and behold, you'll like it again. Maybe even love it.
It's just how it is. |
