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January 30, 2006

A polish...

After four notes and conference sessions with my reader and four just about page one re-writes... after our last chat yesterday...

...all I have to do is a polish! That's right... just a little dialogue shaping to squeeze every ounce of drama out of this story I can. What a feeling from going through the black either of a page one re-write (3.5 times)... to another page one re-write... to another re-write... but to finally hear the words, "It's working on all levels", is a great feeling. "You took it to the next level"... isn't a bad thing to hear either.

For those of you who are new here, I'm talkink about my feature film script, "Produced By Jimmy Wade".

So, what's the plan now?... well, I've got to finish the polish (2 weeks), get the script budgeted (not cheap), convince a casting director to work with me on the project, find a lead actor (preferably a name), write the business plan for investors, find the money to make the movie and then proceed to pre-production... needless to say, I'm going to have a lot to blog about moving forward.

With all that said though, I'm very pleased with my script and am really glad that I didn't start sending this out in the world until both my reader and I were happy with the results. Been there, done that, never again. My friendly advice to fellow writers out there... I thought it was ready after the second draft, it wasn't. I thought I brought it to the next level after my third draft, I didn't... but then after this last pass (fourth draft) I felt in my own heart of hearts that it was really close... and it is... and it's not just me or my mom saying that (see my readers link above). Now just a little bit more and it's there. FYI... that first page one re-write, was about 8 months ago. Keep writing and thanks for checking in.... EB.

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