So here's the craziest Tory, but first here's some ASMR. This video is a follow up to the one I made back in June where I set a goal to write a solid draft of my first screenplay before the end of September. I made that video to keep me on track and to make sure I finish and I'm making this one to share my process just in case there's anybody out there that wants to try and take that next step. So for a while I had the seed of a story idea in the back of my head there's this restaurant called the charcoal pit by the college that I went to and now work at and it burned down and so I always thought that that would make a good kind of interesting concept to a story. So that sat in my head for a while but I struggled to figure out how to write something that long and I've always been somebody who can do a lot in a couple of days but never somebody who could do something over a long period of time. I like and college I really struggled to write you know 15 20 page papers and so I figured that if I was gonna try to write a 90 page screenplay I needed to break it down and set a low bar that I could reach and do a little bit every day to get there. So first I spent the month of July really mapping out the story and figuring out the major plot points and who the characters are that would live in that world and what they would want and then starting July I wrote three pages a day I set that goal and I felt like three pages a day I could just get that out even if they sucked and a lot of them did suck but I felt that if I could just get three pages a day out by the end of July even I would have the rough draft and I kind of scribbled that together in this vomit draft a screenplay book that I got on Amazon and it really helped writing it longhand because I could just get it out easier plus if it sucked I could cross it out so I did do a lot of crossing out and I kept notes this is the journal this is a regular journal that I used just to kind of keep track of where I was this is what I started off with in June so then in August I set the goal to type three pages every day so I just kind of pulled that notebook out set it on front of my computer and just re-typed what I wrote and along the way is I would find things that I would want to kind of rewrite out like there was a lot the script the draft changed a ton from the handwritten one to the first type one but by the end of August I had a 90 page really rough typed script and then in September I set the goal to kind of go through and edit five pages a day and so I did I've met that goal I edited five pages a day and I finished like a good solid second draft by the end of September by 21st of September and to keep track of all this I have a calendar that sits by my desk and I would put a red slash next to every day that I kind of met that goal and I after like 15 to 20 days I wanted to make sure that I didn't break that streak so I did from the beginning of July until now every day I've I've re-the-wrote three pages a day or edited five pages a day I set out to write this because I felt like if I'm ever going to make a feature film you know I've got to be able to write one I've got to be able to sustain a story over that period of time and I knew that the first thing I tried to do wasn't going to be any good so I just needed to get that bad writing out but then when I finished like September 21st or 22nd I printed it out and when I held that in my hand it was like a moment of achievement of accomplishment to think that like even though it's rough you know which is a little bit of work every day you can you know kind of finish something that I really thought was so daunting so for things that I want to do better the second time around I think I really need to spend more time with the characters before I start writing the script really figure out like who they are what they want the relationships with each other like backstory is big moments in their life why why this story needs to happen to them I really feel like my characters are good but they're just not fleshed out enough and so they really kind of fit the plot that I worked around and the stories in Neo Noir it's titled The Missing Million you know it's inspired by Dashel Hammett and inspired by Brick by Ron Johnson so the plot kind of is a big driver but at the same time the characters could be more interesting and could have more to them and the other thing that I think I could do better next time is spend a lot more time on the rewrite of course like great writing is rewriting that's a quote we've heard a million times but I really wanted to just finish something and so like now I'm at the point where like this is the third draft but in reality I know if I was to ever try to make this or really try to refine it and get to the next level I think all the the best points are gonna come from you know the rewriting so definitely along the way I'll probably do more drafts of this one but I really just wanted to meet this goal and yeah so thank you guys for watching these and I hope you know I was able to share something that could be helpful if it was helpful you know give it a like subscribe we're making more short films on this channel and some more behind the scenes stuff with photography and video production and filmmaking so thank you and until next time