I just uploaded my latest¹ version of my feature length screenplay Downfall to the wonderful website TriggerStreet.com².

It has really been a learning experience to write this screenplay. I loved the month of April when I was witting the script as part of the Script Frenzy event, but was so exhausted afterward that I had to leave it alone for some weeks before looking at it again.

And when I finally did, I found a screenplay in need of some serious rewriting. And that is what I’ve spent most of my free time doing for the past months.

The structure of the story is somewhat unchanged, but the pacing, the dialogue, the descriptions have all been changed, corrected or rewritten completely.
Even some of the main characters where merged into one to keep the entourage down to a minimum.

So now, all I have to do is wait for the hungry review vultures of TriggerStreet.com to rip it to pieces and tell me why and where I need to revise the script.

But right now I’m happy as a lark and above proud. Very proud.

1. Latest, not final… it’s never really final
2. if you’re a member of TriggerStreet, fell free to give it a spin, but please be truthful as that’s the only way I’ll learn anything

It’s going fairly well. There are truckloads of typos, but that’s what you get when writing 4-6 pages an hour.

Many of the scenes are quite good already, but I am struggling with some of them. Especially the one in the first half of the 2nd act as many of them feel like they are just stalling time for the midpoint. I’m toying with the idea of changing the setting for this part of the story as the setting is hindering some of the rewriting I’m doing.

And I can’t stress this enough; walking away from the computer and doing this in hand is essential. Sitting down in front of the computer is, at least for me, the most counterproductive way of working.
Call me old fashioned but I need my pen and paper.