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I'm finishing up my 3rd revision of a spec script which was sort of biographical of things that happened to me a long time ago. The story had repetitiveness, too many characters, and the protagonist was too much unlike one. For the first 2 months I didn't think it needed much changing mainly just dialogue and minor tweaks. I take off 3 weeks spend time writing a different screenplay and come back to it and it takes me now 6 weeks of spending an hour or 2 of each day major rewriting and/or thinking of how I could do things differently. I butchered out over 20 pages and replaced them with over 10 pages of new scenes and changed certain aspects of the structure and it's much better. At first I wanted to protect it. Same thing with another screenplay I'm doing. You need to stop protecting things. If you take a few weeks off and look at it and it doesn't make sense or sounds stupid or pointless for the story, get rid of it. If you pause in your reading and think about it, imagine what someone who isn't biased will do?
I'm sure most of you know this, but thought I remind this since I think it's important.
I'm sure most of you know this, but thought I remind this since I think it's important.