Apparently It Has To Be Good...

...the script that is.
Apparently , if the script is good, it will sell.
Apparently, if you have a huge 'story molecule' with 'good idea' neutrons then, as science is science, successful writing is just that.
However, if I write the script myself and it sells then not only is there a mid six figure smile to be had, but it's also known as a 'Spec Script' , but if that doesn't sell then it can become a 'writing example' which means it might get you pitched to write for other 'in the works' ideas or pitches!
Oh and sometimes it can take over five years to complete and be good enough to get your script to an A+ stage.
OK , fine, I get all this and to be honest...it just motivates me more!
It motivates me to get the thing done and to keep going.
It makes me understand that if it is truly good, then it will be acknowledged as such - apparently 'I am the expert' because I am writing about something I know about, something from within me , so who else would be the expert if not me? !!

However, I do get caught between the old style way of writing and the new modern way (i.e like a diary vs a blog) and find that I make notes written on paper AND in MS One Note! I don't seem to have ideas collated in one place and if they are , they are duplicated! I need a piece of blank paper, football pitch in size and and a really small nibbed pen - THEN, I think I could make my notes, my time lines and my story beats fit!

Maybe I need roller-dex cards and I could write my ideas out on there - mmm must remember to number the suckers if I do, or one lollop off the coffee table and the story would end up Tarentino style; back to front!!!

It's also hard to try and change my working hat - one minute I am writing or rather Researching and trying to make sense of all the information and the next minute I feel I need to learn my art before I try and approach it. Lets face it, the only thing I have written is several stories at school, my own accounts of the Rallying world, foreign travel and half a book that was wiped when the laptop died in 1999!

But, as they say - the mind has to be exercised like any other muscle and as such by just thinking about my goal and achieving my first written script (blimey, I said First...seems the subconscious has plans for me!) and by maybe just writing things here, I can exercise my writing brain to produce a script that I feel the expert on, the script that is good, just because it is!