Sunday, March 21, 2010

Yep, I'm that person......

I wrote a script. Yep. Who doesn't want to write their own movie and win an Oscar for best original screenplay? Matt Damon and Ben Affleck did it. How hard can it be? Well, Damon did attend Harvard  and both already had agents, actual acting jobs and connections such as Kevin Smith who was famous at the time for Clerks and Chasing Amy....Sylvester Stallone won for Rocky, but he had already done porn (hahaha).
Anyway, I wrote about true events in my life. Focused around the time my friend Tami died, so it has some drama. It's funny too, with jokes people wouldn't believe I wrote. Not everything is true, but I had to make it more interesting.
I'm proud at the amount I've written. It's taken awhile to get this far. I'm at 100 pages. I believe the average script is 115-120 pages. So, only 20 more to go! Eric printed it out and it's so thick.
Now, I'm not expecting to be discovered, but how AMAZING would that be? I guess when I finish it, after many many drafts, and it looked professional, I would send it to an agent. I could also write a letter query to send out.
All in all, I just needed away to express the feelings I felt during a sad and difficult part of my life. Now, I want to finish it.
Here are some pictures of me holding my Oscar winning script! 

A new to do list:
Finish script!!!! (This may take awhile with school being hectic)
Workout
Mail tax forms (I think this was on the other list....oops)
Sign up for summer classes

5 comments:

Eric said...

I loved the new draft!

Becky D said...

have you written more than the last time i read it?

ModemMama said...

Wow I wanna read your script!!! A Hundred pages, I'm really impressed!

Eric said...

Also, 100 pages is a perfectly acceptable page count for a screenplay.

Annie Hendricks said...

Becky, I did add more but not much, and I'm still working on the grammar.
When it's all polished and fancy I will let more people read it. It's still very rough. It'll get there.