Feeling Stress from Screenwriting

I thought I had "The Key" to writing screenplays.

I thought I had a solution that would allow me to write, to "fix" my story, from beginning to end.

75 pages in I felt stressed.  I felt that I didn't know if everything I had written up to that point was unchangeable.

I felt that I may have just spent six hours changing my story rather than making it better.

I didn't sit down and read my story as a pdf without judgement.

I didn't sit down and read my story, as a pdf, as if it were someone else's story

I sat down, came up with a general solution to apply to every scene, and I began changing scenes.

Prior to this writing session, I had received feedback from two people on trigger street labs.

I had reviewed seven writers work on trigger street labs and noticed a common element that I felt was missing in their work.

When I looked at my story, I felt I too was missing this element.

So I decided to change everything in my story until it contained it.

Did it make it better?  I don't know.

This is a feeling of uncertainty that I get whenever I come up with a "missing element" or "missing piece in the puzzle" idea that I think would make a "great" screenplay.

Then I decided to go back to the initial touchstone for my story: "Fargo"

I wanted to see if Fargo, a script I view as "Great" contained the same element I assumed must be in great scripts.

And low and behold it doesn't.

So what did I learn?

Before I jump in and start to tweak my story I need to:
1) Sit down and read my script as a PDF from beginning to end and take notes in MS Word.
2) Write down my solutions to my notes.
3) Check to see if produced screenplays utilize these solutions.

Then, start changing, tweaking, moving things around.