Probably would've been fired if I didn't know how to write super-fast, at the last minute (TRUE STORY)

Learning to write scripts at hyper-speed is a skill that will serve you in pinch situations

I once had a producer pay me to write a draft of a script from scratch in 7 days. He needed a readable draft to turn in to get a Canadian tax credit for the production. He was only at the treatment stage with the hired-writers i.e. they had not even started writing AT ALL. Basically, it was a Hail Mary.

I did what I do best.

Write bad scripts fast.

Kidding. On the bad part. I can write like lightening though. I cashed the check, and he got the movie-credit he needed, and it went on to get made. Cool.

This is the bonkers version of needing to write like the wind.

But throughout my career as a screenwriter, I’ve always found you’re sort of expected to write fast, especially in the lower budget realm. And by low budget, I mean south of 3m. Time is money, changes happen at warp speed - like locations suddenly falling out, cast members dropping off, or an entire sequence you wrote becoming impossible to shoot because of weather.