If you're anything like me, or at least if you were anything like me for just today, you were on line at the post office at 5 pm hoping to get the May 1st postmark that will make the whole enterprise of getting your two Nicholl submissions ready through a long busy weekend of work worthwhile. Should I have had them ready and mailed last week, or the week before? Yes, Mom, I should have.
I'm not worried about the fact that I was there on line at 4:50, trying to hear what the older gentleman ahead of me was doing that was taking so long. I'm not worried because these last few days gave me the opportunity to read through two scripts I hadn't read start to finish in months, and I really like what I read. I wanted four specs to start shopping around and I'm halfway there.
I'm inspired to keep pushing. Two months in and I feel my progress is very good.
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That's great. How long have you actively been working on these scripts? Do you have any ideas that are new from this year that you are going to work on or all of these ideas you have been carrying arond for years?
Cool, Tom. I similarly beat two scripts into shape last week, when I had a rare work lull, and actually mailed them in 5 days early (not bad for a guy who shops for Christmas presents on December 23rd). And as soon as I did, I got swamped with work. So, kismet.
Thanks, Scott. I wish I'd had a lull, I was thinking I'd have to wait until next year.
Eric, these were my final drafts of scripts I'd first written some years back, but I feel like my perspective on them now has made them richer. I do have new ideas that I've still got germinating, but most of the time I'm thinking of ideas I've had for years. There's always that odd flash that needs immediate attention, but the scripts I'm getting ready to start are all based on ideas from at least five or six years back. I'm not terribly timely. I suppose if I were focusing on writing fulltime I'd be faster on the draw.
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