Finished!

This past Friday I finished my first original Christmas horror screenplay.

I began it in mid-December and got the bulk of it written before Christmas, but then I dragged my feet.

I said this before, but I should have finished it during one of the many snow days we have during January, when it was below freezing. 

Those days kept me in the holiday spirit in a weird sort of way.

I won't lie, even finishing those last few pages were kind of difficult. Even with my Charles Dickens Paddywax candle burning by my side, without the Christmas music in the background and the promise of watching the original 1974 Black Christmas later on that night, and the joy and excitement of the holiday itself still down the road a few days, I just didn't feel the motivation to finish this script.

This is just more evidence to support my theory that you need to pick the fruit while it is ripe, or it will rot on the vine.

Finish a story when you intend to finish it, and not later (before is okay). 

Also, in the end, this script is only 61 pages long.

Which, I suppose, makes it experimental. 

I guess this will be a script I trot out after I've been signed and had a script made and everyone in Hollywood is asking if I have any other scripts (I long for that day).

I see this script as, perhaps, being a straight-to-streaming affair, for better or worse.

But the bottom line is that I did not force the story to be longer than it (organically) had to be, and include extra scenes, dialog, characters that would be laborious for me to write, for producers to read and for audiences to watch.

In the end, I stayed true to myself and only let the story be as long as it needed to be. 

I hope that benefits this script, instead of hurting it.

But I can't think about that.

I just need to be glad that I was able to fully realize a story on paper  and that now it is out in the world (if the world wants it).