My first paid job as a writer

I’ve received a request to rewrite a first draft of a short script into something that eventually will be filmed.

My first paid job as a writer.

If you have read the comments to my blog entries it will come as no surprise that it is Robert A Vollrath at Endangered Truth who assigned me.

I’ve never rewritten something by somebody else before.

As I read through the material the first time I noted that the ideas I got when he pitched me and what he had written was pretty tuned, so on the whole we pretty much agree it seems.

But I also made the reflection that this was the first time that I really had to respect another person’s opinion about my writing. I am not assigned to rewrite this into my story. My job is to bring out his story.

This is not about me and what I want to tell.

My assignment is to make a great script of Robert's story and bring out what he want to tell.

This is so exciting!

I'm nervous.

But confident.