What is Productive?

[queenoftheskies]

I'm asking myself that this morning. Trying to decide.

Does productive have anything to do with quality?

Or does it just relate to what a person has accomplished in quantity, whether it is quality work or not?

I mean, I'm pleased at the quantity of what I produced yesterday. I can't complain about that. I got 26 pages written...and 7 done the day before...for a total of 33 pages so far this weekend. I'll definitely hit my 50 page goal by the end of today. The editing portion of it, too.

So, why have I suddenly decided that it must come out better the first time around?

Just because I managed that with my first two assignments doesn't mean it's going to happen every time.

What happened to my EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED LATER mantra? I still believe that just as much as I believed it before.

Theoretically.

Is it that I know people are going to read this right away?

Maybe.

Is it that I know the instructor is going to be hard on it? (And that's the way it should be.) Maybe.

Or maybe it's the fact that the mid section of a screenplay is the hardest section to write.

Maybe I'm wondering if I'm giving out too much information about the aliens.

Or not enough.

Maybe I'm wondering if anyone can even follow what I'm writing.

Maybe it's that I've been cranking along, crunching those words, and have just lost touch of the momentum I'm struggling to build.

Maybe I'll feel differently when I sit down, read, and go back to edit.

However, I am still pleased that I'm getting it down.

I'd better go finish the rest.

Only then can I adequately judge the material.