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Chapter 16 - In The Quiet Of My Heart (Part 4)

His plan was to make 20 episodes and hopefully get them aired on ReelRise.

On the same day he met with them, Im Giseok came to the set.

Along with the few pages he had already given Lee Hayoon and the two new episodes he had rushed to finish, Lee Hayoon felt they were ready to start filming.

"Is it that urgent?" Im Giseok asked.

Lee Hayoon sighed and explained the current situation, "The crew has been idle since you first gave me the script, and I was just eager to start filming."

"Alright," Im Giseok nodded.

Before Lee Hayoon could understand what Im Giseok's nod meant, he saw him whispering with Yoo Oncheong for a while, then Im Giseok started typing away at the keyboard.

Early the next morning, the filming for <> officially began.

Im Giseok called Lee Hayoon and Yoo Oncheong over and handed them a few sheets of paper.

Lee Hayoon glanced through them, his mouth wide open in surprise.

In just one day, Im Giseok had finished writing another two episodes!

Considering that he and Im Giseok had only started communicating on the screenwriting forum a few days ago, Lee Hayoon had been worried, thinking it would take at least three months for a new script.

Typically, a 20-episode drama would take about a year and a half to go from script polishing to being ready for use.

Each episode usually has around 10,000 words, and each script would contain about 30 scenes.

Im Giseok's speed was like a rocket.

The key point was that both he and Yoo Oncheong agreed that what Im Giseok had written was actually useful—much better than the writer from Lee Hayoon's previous show.

Even though Im Giseok insisted he had merely "sorted out" the existing script, Lee Hayoon felt that his "sorting" had taken a 60-point script and turned it into a 90-point one.

There were indeed genius screenwriters in the industry who could write anything and make it great.

Directors would often take their freshly written scripts and film them immediately, sometimes even creating a classic series.

But writers like that had nothing to do with Lee Hayoon.

Of course, he had dreams of his shows becoming instant hits, but he knew the difference between dreams and reality.

Im Giseok was known for being an incredibly fast writer.

To put it mildly, screenwriters who were more skilled than him didn't have nearly as many works, and many of them quit after writing just two shows.

On the other hand, writers with more work were usually not as good as him.

In the screenwriting industry, Im Giseokk was definitely at the top.

He was very consistent in his writing.

Once he got into it, he could write day and night without stopping.

Besides, <> had all the material ready, so writing it wasn't a hassle.

He turned in three episodes on the first day, but in the following days, his speed slowed down—mostly because he realized that the filming crew couldn't keep up with how fast he was writing.