Here’s where we stand. I roughed in the end of the screenplay last Thursday. I decided to let it sit over the weekend and then go over it on Monday when I would expand the end and add any scenes that were missing from the beginning.

Yesterday I added a scene that introduced some of the characters a little sooner than I had before. The scene also has them interacting with another character that they didn’t before. These characters really need to have a scene together. It’s the kind of thing where I look at it now and wonder how I missed having that scene.

I also went over the end but didn’t expand it as much as I had hoped. I ended up with seventy pages, which is more pages than I’ve ever written of anything, but still too damn short. Hey, it’s still a work in progress. I went over the pages looking for typos and then printed it all out.

Last night and early this morning I went over the pages, making my little blue notes. I’m just about to go back through it and make all the changes and expand a bunch of scenes. Hopefully it’ll balloon out to eighty odd pages.

I’m not sure if I’ll call that the first draft or not. I’ve still got over three weeks until my deadline. I’ll probably go over it a couple more times before I let anyone read it.

To work.