Rereading, Moving Things Around, and Rewriting...

Today I finally got to work on my second draft of Little Monsters. Yes, it is due tomorrow. Yes, I waited to the last moment. I have been thinking about it and what I needed to do with the script and I admit my lack of work on it had to do with not being sure how to proceed - a blockage, if you will... so I re-read my script, and I re-read my notes from the first feedback session, and I re-read the comments from other people who had read the script. And then I started doing little fixes. There were a few lines I flagged that I felt were off so I re-worked them. Then I moved a monologue to a new place and while I was at it, I rewrote it so it worked better in the new place. Then I thought about a scene that I felt was missing and I put it in where I thought it should be. It was all these little movements and tweaks and shifts but it got me moving through the old draft and into the new one.

Is the script done and close to perfect - NO WAY - but it's closer to what I want it to be. After all the little moves and tweaks I worked through it from start to finish and I feel that I can now call it a Second Draft. The unblocking is mostly technical writing - not artistry - I can't get to that for a few more drafts, but that's okay, I am closer now.