Writing Question: Do you remember the very first time you typed FADE OUT?

Finishing the first draft of your first script marks the crossing of a major threshold. You have moved from someone who has never completed a screenplay to someone who has. And that right there separates you from someone who talks about writing a script and someone who actually writes one.

So I ask you to go back in time. Remember that first script you wrote. Now dig deeper. Peel away everything that has happened from then until now, and see if you can remember what it felt like the very first time you typed FADE OUT?

What was the script? What was the room like where you typed those words? What did you do — if anything — to celebrate.

There is something magical about those words: FADE OUT. Like the words “The End”. Marking the end of one journey [first draft] and the beginning of another [rewrites].

Take a moment to celebrate the victory you achieved the very first time you typed FADE OUT.

What do you remember of that moment?

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