That Big Step
I recently took a look at my second screenplay project I started at the beginning of this year. It was awful. I had the sort of disgust you usually only feel when looking at something you wrote many years ago, not eight months.
But this week, I realized what changes I need to make to the storyline to make it work. Nothing huge, just stuff like tying more of the locations and backstories together and making the characters seven or eight years younger.
But recognizing these things shows me that I’ve taken a big step in terms of my writing. It’s one thing to be able to write something that’s good. But to take something that doesn’t really work and MAKE it good… that’s what makes a real writer, in my opinion.