anyone else find creating a video script harder than the guides suggest?

The guides make it sound like writing an essay, but a video script is closer to writing a conversation. What helped me: get to the point in the first few seconds, no "hey guys welcome back". Write how you actually talk, then read it out loud and cut every sentence you trip over. A lot of people end up with bullet points instead of a word-for-word script, it sounds less stiff.