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Recently I decided to revisit a screenplay I "finished" (first draft) about fifteen years ago that I gave up on in disgust — it was just sitting there. I thought, "I should dig that up and see what it's like." But to do that I had to "rescue" it from a defunct file format (fortunately XML based, so I could extract the text but not the format) and turn it back into a readable screenplay, via Fountain mark up. It took about six to eight hours to get it readable. At first I thought, "hey, this wasn't that bad," but then I read through it again and began to see why it had "disgusted" me in the first place. At this point I'm seeing if there is any way to rescue it, but I think it'll basically be "save the radiator cap and replace the car" type of thing. This was my only attempt at a full-length screenplay. All the others were short screenplays (about three to four hundred of them).
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