Comments on: New Ideas vs Finishing Your Screenplay http://jaymckinnon.com/blog/screenwriting/new-ideas-vs-finishing-your-screenplay?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-ideas-vs-finishing-your-screenplay Movies, Screenwriting & Independent Film Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://jaymckinnon.com/blog/screenwriting/new-ideas-vs-finishing-your-screenplay/comment-page-1#comment-728 Greg Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:51:43 +0000 http://jaymckinnon.com/blog/?p=2164#comment-728 I have been there many a time! Wait...yep...still there. The only bit of advice I can give is to just write down as much of the idea and any other related ideas into a document. Finish working on your feature otherwise you will keep playing this write vs. Idea game. That's one reason I love my idea spreadsheet. The idea rocks and holds my attention for a few days and I try to filter and create a storyline. If I can do that and get it down, I feel comfortable enough to set the idea aside and get back to work on my current script. Since early February when I started to actively work on the script I have three short stories, 2 songs, a comic book, and 2 movies (one action the other biopic). My fiancée joked with me Wednesday, when someone was touting the benefits of daydreaming, that my creative machine runs over writer blocks and stays in permanent cruise control! It's good and bad, I am still learning the balancing act of constant ideas and screenwriting! I have been there many a time! Wait…yep…still there. The only bit of advice I can give is to just write down as much of the idea and any other related ideas into a document. Finish working on your feature otherwise you will keep playing this write vs. Idea game. That’s one reason I love my idea spreadsheet. The idea rocks and holds my attention for a few days and I try to filter and create a storyline. If I can do that and get it down, I feel comfortable enough to set the idea aside and get back to work on my current script. Since early February when I started to actively work on the script I have three short stories, 2 songs, a comic book, and 2 movies (one action the other biopic).

My fiancée joked with me Wednesday, when someone was touting the benefits of daydreaming, that my creative machine runs over writer blocks and stays in permanent cruise control! It’s good and bad, I am still learning the balancing act of constant ideas and screenwriting!

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