How to tell if my story is finished, or needs more?
Slightly obtuse title, let me elaborate.
I'm writing my first screenplay, and I'm trying to keep it simple while making it simultaneously wonderful. It's just a rom-com.
But as I write and modify and embellish the story, I can't seem to decide whether it's "enough."
Questions I'm asking myself: Does this portray an engaging series of events? Is this a story the viewer can get immersed in? Is this building to something, which is to say: Does this plot have enough conflict, tension, and suspense? Even in the soft doses involved in a rom-com?
I'm very unsure whether my story is too flat. How can I decide if I've reached the end?
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If you didn't create an outline — that is, if you didn't know beforehand how it was going to end — then you're suffering from impeded arborvision (you can't see the forest for the trees).
1) Put it in a drawer and don't read it for a month. Come back with fresher eyes. You'd be amazed what you catch.
2) Hand it off to someone else and ask your reader if the story is finished. You need other perspectives.
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