{"id":108630,"date":"2019-01-16T05:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=108630"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:09:34","slug":"tips-for-finishing-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/tips-for-finishing-screenplay\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Obstacles to Writing Your Screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Struggling to finish your film script? Here are five of the biggest obstacles screenwriters face \u2014 and how to overcome them.<\/h2>\n

To be honest, starting a screenplay is probably the easiest thing in the world to do. People have great ideas all the time. Inspiration strikes, and you feverishly begin scribbling away at a brilliant idea. Not to reduce any of your excitement, because people truly do have great ideas all the time, but the real challenge isn\u2019t finding the right concept \u2014 it\u2019s finishing it.<\/p>\n

There are millions of unfinished great ideas out there. However the only great ideas that actually get made into films are the ones that are painstakingly worked on, revised, edited, and finished.<\/p>\n

To finish a script, you\u2019ll have to overcome many obstacles along the way. And while each obstacle will be unique to you and your story, there are some general ones you might experience. Here are five of the biggest obstacles screenwriters face when working on their brilliant ideas \u2014 and how you can overcome them.<\/p>\n

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1. Finding the RIGHT Opening Scene<\/h3>\n
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Image via Adaptation<\/a><\/em> (Columbia Pictures).<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking from personal experience (as well as helping and listening to dozens of other writers and filmmakers), the majority of people who sit down to write their screenplay begin with the opening scene. This makes sense because movies begin with an opening scene, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

However, once you spend a few weeks on your script, the opening scene becomes simply one scene among many. And while you\u2019ll probably painstakingly work and re-work every other scene in your film, you might, like many writers, fall into the trap of caring too much about your original idea for the opening.<\/p>\n

The right scene to open your movie isn\u2019t necessarily your first idea. Or your second or your third. If anything, your opening scene should be your most nitpicked and reworked scene of them all. So, start how you\u2019d like, but finish by finding the right<\/em> opening scene.<\/p>\n