Why Writing A Script Takes FOREVER

When I was in high school, we had to submit this research report to be graded on men’s mental health.

Basically interview some people, read some research papers and compile it into a full thesis.

That was basically it.

The deadline?

10 months.

And in true Bryan fashion, as a straight gun of a student I was, I took all 10 months to complete the project with my group.

25 rewrites of the research report, hours and hours of late nights gone into looking and obsessing at every single word to make it pure perfection.

Literal blood, sweat and tears were poured into this report.

By the end of it, thank goodness I scored an A+.

You might think that’s the end of it, happy ending, I got the highest score possible for the project.

But literally everyone else got the same grade.

And some of my friends spend a grand total of 4 days writing the report, rushing for the deadline, and they got the same grade.

While the writing wasn’t the greatest (that’s what I tell myself to console myself for the lost time), it still got the job done.

Now I’m not saying that you should put off your work to the last minute, but….

It still worked.

Thinking back, this discredited the idea that “if you spend more time on something, it will be better”.

You could spend 1 month on a YouTube script, but the quality could be the exact same as the one that you spent 5 hours on.

And that’s because of Parkinson’s Law which states that work expands to the time allotted to it.

So because I decided to allocate 10 months to my project, it took me 10 months to get it done.

But my friends gave themselves 5 days to do it, and they still got the job done.

The exact same goes for writing a YouTube script.

Most YouTubers will spend 5 days on a 2000 word script because they say that they are going to film on Friday, so they give themselves the full length from Monday-Friday to write it.

Give yourself 4 hours to write a script, and you’ll get it done in the time allotted.

Simple fix, yet effective.

Hope this was helpful,

Bryan

P.S. I’m writing this from the beaches of Greece.

I’m heading back to Singapore because my grandma misses me.

Tell your grandma that you love her.