For many writers, the hardest part of finishing a screenplay is actually finding the willpower to sit down and write the thing. Here's what's stopping you.
I'd also add, from my experience, that the thing that makes me procrastinate working on scripts is not knowing exactly what to do with them once they're done. The film and TV process can feel so nebulous and reliant on unpredictable and vague networking, as opposed to working on novels, where I knew from the beginning that the step after writing the best book I could was to query agents. You can do that with screenplays, sort of, but it's not quite as straightforward as that.
Great points. Professionally speaking (as a TV writer and a psychiatrist), that there are a few other reasons. Including feeling overwhelmed, which can really just not having a set “process” on developing a script from idea to Fade Out.
I'd also add, from my experience, that the thing that makes me procrastinate working on scripts is not knowing exactly what to do with them once they're done. The film and TV process can feel so nebulous and reliant on unpredictable and vague networking, as opposed to working on novels, where I knew from the beginning that the step after writing the best book I could was to query agents. You can do that with screenplays, sort of, but it's not quite as straightforward as that.
Great points. Professionally speaking (as a TV writer and a psychiatrist), that there are a few other reasons. Including feeling overwhelmed, which can really just not having a set “process” on developing a script from idea to Fade Out.