Despite having worked with screenplays throughout my career, only started writing continuously on my first screenplay last year. By the end of October, I had an unfinished treatment and synopsis and felt pretty alone.

The Screenwriting Marathon was a great opportunity to clearly formulate my goals right at the beginning: I was still doubtful about writing a first draft of my material. By stating the goal of writing 90 screenplay pages in front of other like-minded people, the weekly calls, the shared crises and achievements, and with the support of Paula and the other writers, I reached my goal. Playfully, without pressure with a lot of inspiration!

I attended the pitch event right after that with my project and am currently revising the version. And I was allowed to try out a scene on the Scriptdock tableread during the Berlinale to see if the comedy works in front of an audience. It does. Thanks for that. My story wants to become a movie.

Dear Paula,

I just read your feedback. Thank you very much for that! I find your words very motivating - and very constructive and useful, as they reflect well what works and what does not yet! Since the story is very fresh and I tell it for the first time, I was also a little afraid of how the first reaction will be. After all, you're kind of the first viewer of this film! Now the fear is taken away from me, thank you also for it! (...)

I think I can see very well from your review what I can do concretely to make it more comprehensible for the viewer.

Thanks Paula for inventing the screenwriting marathon!

Thank you so much for your review - I find it very helpful and motivating - just like the other times before! Really, you've got it down! In fact, after this month, I actually feel like I've rocked it down. But that's okay. I can definitely feel the story now and see everything in front of me - and of course, the first treatment version is more like a collection of material. But I'm proud of it. Because a month ago I knew nothing about it.

Apparently, I need to feel a certain amount of pressure. In the second week, I managed to write 20 pages. Otherwise, I wouldn't have written any pages at all.

Just posting the logline and knowing that others are reading it now has inspired me!