"Steel Clouds" is now down to a very late phase of nitpicking. I'm still finding small issues, but the issues get smaller with every edit.

My opening is nearly perfected. My dialogue needs only minor tweaks in a few scenes. The typos and formatting errors are miniscule.

I could potentially have a finished draft by tomorrow. I still have two weeks until my deadline so there will probably be one more proofread, but I'm impressed with what I've got. I find that I'm starting to do things intuitively that fall neatly along the lines of professional advice without feeling forced. My first ten pages are now textbook quality and I was really going more by gut than by guidebooks.

It looks pretty professional to me already, and I'm sure once it hits the screenwriting contest circuit, it'll be better than textbook.