So, there's books and guides to tell you how to write a screenplay. The thing about a script is it's a wrangle with snakes. Everything seems to be slithering everywhere, slippery and not easy to grab hold of the little bastards.
I've rewritten the first act story and structure about ten times, I feel it's beginning to get clear and make sense and that a possible story is emerging. But there's always a nagging doubt, is this going to be any good? What is good? Would I know good when I see it on the page? I know, I know. Screenwriting is a mystery, an adventure, finding the ark and opening it, hoping there isn't only dust inside for your reward.
Of course, I can't tell you what the story is unless you meet me in a secret location and sign an NDA. You know i'm joking, because I'm a writer who has never sold anything, never written anything that's worth anything to anybody, and there are no guarantees that this script is going to be anything different. But you may tell it to someone else who may write a great script who may give it to a great producer who may hire a great director who makes a terrible movie that only makes one million domestic and fifty million overseas. I'd be pissed off, too.
The only thing that is in my favor is I have a mentor, a guide, a plan, a structure that will help get this script into the form of a real story that some producer, someplace in time will want to help me make.
Perhaps I'm venting. I'll go tap into the courageousness of the heroes that have been before us and kill these fucking snakes.
