Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

I've been playing around with screenwriting as a hobby for a while now. In the last month I started to write my first feature-length script. I've got three major characters, each with a complete character arc mapped out from start to finish, and I've got the major events planned, but there's a problem. After putting pen to paper (so to speak), my "feature-length" script is roughly 50 pages. Typically a feature of this nature is more like 120 pages (at ~1 minute per page).

Soooo now I'm like, wha'd I do wrong? Is it possible to get to the point too quickly in a story? Am I destined to write for television rather than film? Am I missing some kind of subplot to resolve in Act II?

I lost the motivation to finish it after realizing there was something fundamentally wrong in my structure and pacing for it to be so short.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.