What... five years!

Well, that's how many years ago it was that I received the original Certificate of Registration for my first draft: I lost count of the rewrites after about draft eight. We won’t even go in to the number of title changes since then… HA! But here’s what’s really sweet, and you’ve read this in my blog before, the script gets better with each rewrite! Well, as long as you’re maturing as a writer – seriously, you have to study the craft otherwise you’re just putting words on a page.

Well Sunday at 7:06PM I completed what I believe is the next to last rewrite on my first script– 109 pages, that’s roughly two hours runtime. The reason I say next to last rewrite is because I want to get it critiqued again before I’m really comfortable with it. As a matter of fact, I’m going to read through it again after I post this blog – I’m seriously going look at where I can chop some fat off. Any whose, I love this story! I’ve watched it progress over the years, and I’m just so in love with it – it’s an urban social drama. And although I was raised in the “hood”, this is not a story about me. Needless to say, the circumstances are as true to life as I know them to be from personal experience because who wants to sit through a story they can’t relate to… at all? You know what I mean? Or have you ever watched a movie, except for maybe Sci-Fi and Comedy, and thought, “Please, it would not happen like that in real life.”

Okay, someone is asking “So, Gina, if writing is rewriting until it’s written, when is the script written?” I’d say when you’ve properly applied the notes you got from a professionally experienced Reader who has thoroughly critiqued it: by then you should be confident your story is structured well – it’s balanced, flows logically, delivers depth of emotion, your characters are developed, and there’s an audience who will connect with it.

As for me, a writer who’s in this for the Kingdom’s sake, it’s important that the story brings honor to my King first and foremost.

Okay, I'll have to read through it tomorrow... it's way past bed time.

Happy writing,
/GM

Writing is rewriting until it's written!