Nice Guys Finish: Mark's Resource Roundup
- Mark Bedard
- Jul 14, 2017
- 1 min read
Should you finish every script you start? I hate to give the standard industry answer, but it depends. As a general rule, we’ve all been taught to finish what we start (and to clean up our mess afterward) for pretty much everything in life. But, when it comes to screenplays we have to ask ourselves some hard questions.
Why did you want to tell the story in the first place?
If you finish it will it have accomplished anything?
If you don’t finish the story will you feel you failed?
All very standard questions to be sure, but the question I always ask myself is if I finish this script will I have learned something? Now you could say, of course, you’ll learn something, but if all you learned was that your time would have been better spent writing something else then you weren’t asking yourself the hard questions.
Remember, finish it or not there is likely to be material that can be repurposed elsewhere. All is never lost.
Keep writing,
Mark
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Parting Thought:
“You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things” ― Neil Gaiman
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