Review Your Script

Today, take a minute (or more) and review your script. Many of us (maybe even most) have overactive minds. Often, this activity consists of playing the same movie over and over. Strangely enough, even though we are set on play — rewind — and repeat, we are not always aware of being stuck in this cycle or its effect on, well, almost everything we do throughout our lives. And, even more strangely, this may very well have begun in our childhood and followed us for years. So, how about taking some time each day and quietly reviewing your script? What keeps coming up again and again? How do you feel when you hear that age-old diatribe? Meditate and journal and repeat again and again. Then, start to rewrite the script one line at a time. Writers know the first draft is meant to be revised. Yet, as awful as it is, sometimes we are so attached to those first sentences that we may resist throwing them out for something more beautiful.