RECLAIM off to Sundance on Angel’s Wings
by Barbara ~ October 6th, 2010September 30, 2010
I’ve gotten everything done with time to spare. I’ve called FedEx to see the latest time I could drop it off. They informed me that their driver left at precisely 7:30PM. If it was not in the bag, ready to go, then it wouldn’t go.
Lot’s of time to spare so I thought I’d do one last read through. One great thing about the Final Draft software is that you can assign voices and have the script read out loud. It’s a fab tool, because it all sounds different when actually spoken. Of course I love writing so I got a little lost in the process and time was flying by.
I decided about 6:30PM that I should begin printing while I finished up. I started printing the first 60 pages. (My entire screenplay is 110 pages long.) At 7:00 PM I look at the clock and see that I’d better wrap this project up. HOWEVER, it took 30 minutes to print the first 60 pages and they weren’t quite done yet. OMG!!!
I hit print for the final 50 pages. OMG!! This was going to be beyond close. I thought perhaps I could put it on a memory stick, drive to Kinko’s and print there. OMG!! That would take even longer as I was using SUPER special paper. OMG! I threw everything I needed, including some Bliss, into the car. I stood by the printer watching each page print, painfully slowly. I took each page out and 3-hole punched it. (That is the standard format 3-hole punch with 2 brass brads.)
I stopped and said a prayer to the Universe. I released the deadline and my stress. If it was meant to be… I’d make it somehow. If not, then… that would be OK.
It is now 7:18 PM and I only have 12 minutes to get this envelope in the FedEx bad. Now 7:18. Now 7:20. Three pages left to print.
I virtually ripped the last page out of the printer, punched it. Stuck the brads through. Got in the car and drove, under the speed limit to FedEx.
Did I make it? YES. I got there at 7:28 PM and I will never forget that drive and how powerful it was to release it to the Universe.
My request to the Universe is that it be delivered on Angel’s Wings. And so it was!