So I finished a script in a week…
…and I’m talking about a full, 90-page screenplay for a feature motion picture. It was described as a “nearly impossible” job by the person who asked if I could do it, but I took it on anyway, and actually finished a couple of hours before the deadline. I accepted the job on New Year’s Eve, did research for the project and created a five-film synopsis and proposal from Thursday, January 1st through Sunday, January 4, and started writing that night. I finished yesterday evening around 6:00 p.m. and handed it in.
I can’t talk about the project yet, but hopefully it will move forward and I’ll be discussing it quite a bit in the near future.
Author Christopher J. Valin 
How many drafts did you write in that short of time and were you happy with the final product?
Hi Tony,
Of course, I would have loved to have more time to do at least one more draft, but it wasn’t up to me. I basically turned in a polished first draft, although I had a pretty detailed outline worked out ahead of time. I was surprisingly happy with the final product, since it turned out quite a bit better than I would have imagined under the circumstances.
But writing that much, that fast was a pretty brutal process (I got very little sleep, and ended up sick at the end of the week). I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone if you have a choice.
LOL Sounds brutal. I think the fastest I’ve ever cranked out a first draft (and this was only a 30 minute sitcom) was 2 weeks. Congrats on churning out something you were happy with that quickly. I applaud you.
Thanks! And two weeks is nothing to sneeze at, even for a 30 minute pilot.