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There are rough drafts and first drafts. What's the difference? A rough draft is that wavering bunch of pages that you managed to slog through and somehow get to Fade Out. The End.
You probably hate the ending and one of your central characters is so paper thin as to be almost invisible. And you know that not enough complications happen in the second act. And your gut feeling is that the third act ends too abruptly.
In short, you're relieved to have completed it, but before showing it to anybody you know it needs lots of work.
First drafts are better. Still flawed in certain areas, but less embarrassing than your rough draft. You've fixed the things that bothered you or weren't working properly. Now you may have other problems. The kind that happen once you've "fixed" other stuff.
This is normal. This is the magical process of rewriting. And I'm not kidding when I say magical. Unless you've experienced the satisfaction and joy of making a scene or scenes or an act work after you've re-thought it, you can't truly appreciate the value of sticking with a difficult passage or passages in your script.
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