"Hunting" for Success

Today, I am mainly thinking and talking about the writing process and the success of finishing a script. Chris Terrio, writer of Argo (2012), once described writing a script as an exciting hunt, one where the first snap-shot of an idea that you get in your head is when you've very first found evidence of your prey, the flicker of a tail in the distance. And the finished screenplay is the part after you've spent all day in the woods tracking your game, and you get to slam it down on your woman's table and say through exhaustive breathes, "There! I got it! Here's what I killed for you."

It is very much so in the sense that when you first find that first sliver of hope that your prey is out there just ahead of you, you need to follow the trail. If I get an idea for a script, and I don;t write it down, it may be lost in the woods forever.

With that said. As of today, I have over 40 hunts in progress, the majority of which are feature length films. Those hunts, those trails I've picked up on, range from prgressions as small as an idea written on a page, to completely storyboarded and 40 pages into scripting. The majority of my ideas are just that, ideas with a few bullet points of glimpses of the story, well over a dozen of them are in the outlining phase, and the script has to be a certain genre for it to be necessary for me to storyboard it.

With that said, if I had a team, we'd be set for life. I'll write, we make. :D

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