Only you can decide which 1st Drafts are worth rewriting....

Deciding which first drafts are deserving of REWRITING can be complicated. Sometimes you can’t wait to go back in and fix the problems with characterization or motivation that you know you left unresolved in that push to complete the first draft. At other times, external factors drive the decision to rewrite: a contest deadline looms, a producer queries you, a favorite aunt demands that you stick to it!

Sometimes a script is destined to be nothing more than body parts for a more important work that awaits down the road. That’s okay too. For one of my favorite scripts I stole the idea for the opening and closing from an earlier work. Does that mean my first script was a waste of time? I don’t think so. It didn’t sell, but the borrowed concept catapulted me into my new script with a momentum that allowed me to finish it in record time. And the REWORKED script was a vast improvement over the one from which I filched the opening. 

Only you can know which first drafts are worth rewriting and which are best left on the shelf. Either way, you will have learned a great deal by writing that first draft.

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