The Ultimate Writer's Challenge: Writing a Full-Length Screenplay or Novel

By: Johnny

People who enjoy writing like to do lots of things when it comes to satisfying our writing desires and our writing cravings. We like to read to practice our understandings of certain forms of writing. We like to write to practice the ideas that we learn. All the different kinds of reading and all the different kinds of writing fall into the category of the ways us writers can be satisfied from our writing desires and cravings. Out of all these different forms of reading and writing there is one practice that stands alone as for the attention to detail and dedication required for its completion.

Writing a full novel-length story is something that's so incredibly daunting it can sometimes just seems unattainable. The amount of pure writing that's required is enough to heavily discourage most people from even considering trying it out. Whether this full-length story is in the form of a novel, or a script or screenplay, the workload necessary for it to be full length, and then to be a solid piece of writing, is astonishing on almost all levels. All of the brainstorming and planning that goes on beforehand, to the actual writing of the story, to all the editing and revising that happens before the piece is a finished final draft. It's an overwhelming amount of work to even think about and then I'm assuming the actual process is a grueling, but eventually highly rewarding one. 

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started writing the script/screenplay for 
Superbad in 1995. The movie hit theaters in 2007.

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I have a goal in my life, that I certainly hope to accomplish in the near future (maybe within 5 years), and that's to write a full-lengths story. The story will be fiction, and I'm sure I will have to start small. Writing a short story that's got a great deal of material to work with at first, and then eventually expanding and elongating it to reach its full novels length. I feel this process will only do good things for me as a writer, as it will be an enjoyable, satisfying, painfully thoughtful, and then immensely rewarding one. I sincerely cannot wait.