Sometimes I think these epics screenplays are all in my head. I build them up into works for amazement that only I've seen. As writers you understand but given us, when should you scrap a project. We hear stories where the big wigs didn't like a specific project but the world loved it. Personally, I'd write it, put it in a box and keep it, burn the box or bury it. What are your thoughts? Is scraping a screenplay ever an option?
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No great work of art is ever finished, only abandoned-- MichaelAngelo.
Sometimes an idea in our head translates better through another medium. If you find your vision difficult to work for the screen, take a break a try it as a novel. It could be that the great idea is trying to get out a different way.
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It's all part of the learning process. If you're not happy with it, put it aside and start the next one, if you're convinced there's a great story in there then keep working it, even if you have to let it boil in your head some more while you work on something else.
Patricia- The best sauce comes when you let it simmer. Hear! Hear!
Thanks for all you advice. I can never abandon them and I'm never sure they're just right and always could be better. And I have written a novel. Not a good one but it was a challenge at my local library. NaNoWriMo which basically meant write or finish a novel in a month.
I haven't scrapped anything permanently as yet. I just assume I haven't the talent/ability to realise some of my projects at this time. I am struggling through a very old project right now in my attempt to up my god-damn game and finish that damn screenplay. UGH somebody buy me a drink.
I understand how both you feel.
I have a couple I've put on the back burner because I haven't fully figured out the story. But I will go back to them eventually.
Don't scrap anything.. if it's something you think you really can't use or go back to at a later date, you never know if sometime you're writing something and think that something you've written before that you didn't think was that great, could be adapted or rewritten to fit in with what you're doing presently, could be a paragraph, a line or any part of a previously written piece :)
I say scrap a project when you don't have time to write it. I have had to scrap a project because I have not had time to do it.