Celebrate good rewrites, come on

Do you guys just KNOW when it works? Because I feel super good right now. I just wrote the last three scenes on Burnside and I feel awesome about them, which is kind of a miracle. This script has been giving me fits since day one. I love the idea, and when I tell people the idea they all kind of go, "Oh that's so neat!" but actually writing it has been one of my greatest challenges.

Usually when I have this much trouble with a script I just give up on it and start something more fun, but I knew I had something here so I kept with it. I first had the idea for the script not quite a year ago and I've been writing it for months. I had a long period where I didn't know what the hell I was going to do next, and I agonized over the ending for ages.

Then today happened. I wrote a scene I needed to inject into the story, and that went okay. Then I went to the ending. That dreaded, complicated, elusive ending. And I stared at my screen and I thought about what I would do if I were these people. What would I say if I had a bullet in my shoulder but was also kind of pissed off at my boyfriend? Then I just typed.

I had decided not to kill my protagonist, but for a second I forgot I had decided that and the dialogue and action was all headed toward her death and I got kind of sad. The last time I wrote her death scene I felt lame, like I forced the emotion. This time, though, I really didn't want her to die. And then, in the awesome world that is screenwriting, I got to bring her back to life! Weeee!

That was the most fun I've had in ages. I am going to celebrate. Awesome rewrite. Awesome.

Now to wait for the next round of notes.