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You know the feeling. You've been through three or four (or five or six) rewrites. You know you're done, but you're slogging through a line edit or page by page proofing or last minute punch up.
But it's hard. Really hard. You're sick of it. The characters, story, dialogue, twists, turns--the whole nine yards. Nothing in it is fresh to you anymore. You don't even laugh at the lines that broke you up before.
This is normal. This is the heavy lifting part of finishing a script. You just have to get through out. Any way you can. If you go at it in one big explosion of energy or if you do it a few pages at a time. Whatever works for you.
It's the last ten yards to the top of the mountain. By the time you get there you may hate it, but later, when you're printing out the first copy of your new screenplay, the pain will all be worthwhile.
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