Writing Tip: One Page Per Day

You can write two entire spec scripts in one year if you only write one page per day. Two. Complete. Feature. Spec. Scripts.

I have a great deal of sympathy for people who write as an avocation and aspire to become full-time professional writers. However there is one complaint I sometimes hear that bugs me:

I don’t have enough time to write.

Do you have time to write one page? Just one page per day? A little more than 50 lines?

If so, guess what?

At that rate, you can knock out two complete screenplays each year.

How?

Here’s the math:

1 month: Research, brainstorming, character development, plotting

4 months: Writing (1 page per day = 120 pages)

1 month: Rewrite and final edit

That’s one script every 6 months, two scripts each year.

All just by writing one page per day.

So the next time you talk with someone — perhaps yourself? — who says they have this great story concept and they really want to write it, but they simply do not have enough time, ask them the question I posed above:

“Do you have time to write one page?”

You know the rest.