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It Always Takes Me Longer Than I Thought

It Always Takes Me
Longer Than I Thought

Updating my Act Breakdown for my Calkin Cove scriptwriting project took me longer than I thought it would. I was hoping that it would only take me about an hour to update my Act Breakdown, but it took me about three times that long. Unfortunately, I didn’t have that long to work on this project today.

How much time did I have to work on this project today? I only had about four hours today, and around three of those hours were devoted to updating my Act Breakdown for this project. That only left me about an hour to work on the sentence Story Outline for it.

That’s why I only got the Teaser Act One and Act One of this Story Outline written today, aka eighteen sentences. Why didn’t I have more time to work on this scriptwriting project? What is the usual reason why I don’t have more time to work on my scriptwriting projects?

My brother and I didn’t have a lot that we needed to do today, but what we did need to accomplish took us until the middle of the afternoon to finish doing them. As a result, I only had about four hours today to work on this project. I should have gotten more written today, but I didn’t.

It’s not as bad as it reads, though. I didn’t have that much updating that I needed to do for this Act Breakdown. After all, I thought it was going to be a lot, but it wasn’t that bad. Unfortunately, what I needed to update took me a lot longer than it should have taken me to do it.

Why did it take me around three hours to finish updating my Calkin Cove Act Breakdown? I don’t know why it took me so long to update it. It just did. After all, I knew what I wanted to write in the three Acts associated with these characters and their storylines.

I just didn’t know how to write these three Acts, especially since I have my two-sentence/paragraph rule about not repeating the second word in a sentence or paragraph. That caused me some problems, but I don’t think that was the only problem I had with this Act Breakdown or the main reason.

Whatever the reason why it took me so long to update my Act Breakdown for this project, so that I only got eighteen sentences written for my sentence Story Outline written for this project, doesn’t really matter that much. What does matter is that I have started this Story Outline.

It also matters that I only have ninety sentences left before I finish writing this Story Outline. Will I get this Story Outline finished tomorrow? I hope that I can. After all, the sooner I get done with this Story Outline, the sooner I can get started with my Scene Outline.

After all, I will have three hundred and sixty sentences to write for my Scene Outline for this project. The sooner I get started on them, the faster I will get them done and get the sentence phase of my scriptwriting projects done so that I can start working on my paragraph Story and Scene Outlines.