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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Month Two: Scheduling and Research

August 19th, 2007 | 3 min read

By Keith E. Buhler

It had been about a month since Dizzy and I sat down and decided to write a screenplay. We had each done our own research and internal development and come up with a few ideas. We had written broad overviews in our heads and hashed them out with each other. But the time had come to get serious or go home.

We created a four-month schedule for ourselves. Brian Tracy observes that the human psyche simply requires deadlines. If the deadlines are not being given to you from the outside, by principals, university presidents, professors, parents, or pastors, then they must be given to you from the inside; that is, you must give them to yourself. Plato observed that the unlimited becomes meaningful upon the imposition of limit. Time (unlimited) becomes "Time in which a screenplay is written," (meaningful time) upon the imposition of the deadline, August 4th, 2007.

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