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The only bad thing about finishing a script is getting geared up to start the next one. Typically, we're so glad to be done and maybe sick of all the last minute revisions and proofings and whatnot, that we just want to take a vacation or not even look at a computer screen for awhile.
If you're the kind of writer who puts all your energy into one project and find yourself with nothing new to work on, you have the problem of trying to nail down the next idea that you feel strongly enough about to get cracking on.
If you're like me, you have lots of ideas and maybe a few false starts or even scripts that are a third or halfway done, so you can go back into one of them.
I personally feel empty and drained when I've finished something. And it takes me awhile to get back into whatever it is that will be my next project.
In the ideal world we finish a script, get it to our agent, she loves it and sends it out and you get a deal and you make money and you start working on the rewrites the people who bought it start demanding. But if you're in the world that most of us are in, we either use the new script to GET an agent or manager or we start sending it to the producers and development people we know and hope for a nibble.
While we're busy doing that--the non creative part of being a writer--we try to psyche ourselves into getting started on the next one.
It's during that time that it's very easy to feel insecure, vulnerable and convinced you'll never have another idea again.
But we all have to tough it out. Even when you get a deal. You enter the next phase of screenwriting: accomodating what your producers want.
Which is a whole other problem.
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