At 12:30 AM CDT, 3 April 2006, let it be known that I have finished the first draft of the screenplay for my second feature film. Which is different from the first draft of my second feature screenplay, but that’s another tale.
I’ve spent 185 pages describing three days in the lives of five young people in Chicago. I need to cut 65 of those pages, and about 10 of the 26 speaking roles. It would also make my life easier if there were fewer than 30 interior locations (I haven’t counted the exteriors). I shall write constantly about my editing travails, not because I think anyone is interested, but because I am (contra Warden Stephen Gentiles) one of those people who is always going on about his screenplays.
Right now, though, I have work in the morning, and even though my body still thinks it’s 11:37, 6:30 AM will come in six hours no matter what.