I finished the first draft for my treatment, and while the beginning is still the same as before (which means I think its surprisingly alright) the middle is kinda 'meh' and finally the end is really trash. It needs some work and I realized that as I wrote it the original themes and things kinda left my head - even though I did structure it out. The problem is I didn't actually check back on my beat sheet or anything, rather I just wrote it as I remembered it. This memory is understandably quite fuzzy because of how long ago I mapped it out.
The ending is really bad and I didn't even really finish it, I think I made a mistake in the plotting on the way but was too lazy to check back on what the original plan was. I'll go back and read that now and then incorporate the changes as I originally imagined them. After that, I will do a third draft, where I see how well it reads and what things need to be clarified or expanded/cut down on.
All in all, I am happy to have something, haha, usually I don't get this far even. Usually, I question every step so much and think the project is so trash that I don't want to continue. That ends now, even if it is trash it's better than nothing. I am going to force myself to finish each thing even if it isn't very good.
I think the horror stuff actually turned out a bit better than I thought it would, the beginning was easier to write because I had blocked it out so well in the mapping phase that I just had to fill it in - somehow that was a lot of fun. The middle section and end I had left vaguer, not knowing what exactly I'd do step-by-step. In the end, some interesting things came out as I wrote, like the TV shadow and the coat. The videotapes were an idea I had before but not concrete. I think I should stick more to what I already mapped out, I enjoy the mapping and when I free to write like this I don't think it's very good. I need to know very well each step so that it can flow naturally.
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