Aggravating

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This has to be the most aggravating thing when being a writer. Especially a screenwriter. While writing this script, it was coming to the ending and I realised that the last line was on its own page. Why must this happen? It is such a waste of a page! So, I thought, "Well, this script is only 21 pages. I like my scripts to be at least 22-24" and I removed a scene before finishing because I was afraid of running out of room until this happened and happily added the scene back in! It was one of those scenes that did not matter if it was gone or not, but it had a line in that I really wanted and got to add it. So I added in that scene and then I go down to see if it took up another page at the end of the script and...it did it again. It is now 22 pages, but still, the last line is on its own page! Why must this happen to me? If there is any pet peeve I have in writing, it is this one. So now I am editing and I am adding things in, taking things out. Just trying to get at least a quarter of a page filled instead of just one little line. Ugh.