When you're writing your latest script, do you:
a) put down words, then edit them - swapping words out, capitalising, trimming words to make those 3.5 lines fit neatly into 2 lines, and continually go back over previous pages time and time again or b) put down words and keep moving on, leaving them as they are - even if you've orphans, bigger blocks of action lines than you'd like, descriptions that could be tauter - just so you can finish your script?
The pro of a) is that there's less editing to do when you finish, it will look good (which is heartening) and you'll most likely have a lean script around your ideal page count but the downside is stasis - endlessly going over the first 20 pages and never finishing it (which is demoralising).
The pro of b) is that you actually finish it, have something you can analyse in full, can hand to others for their feedback but the flipside is that you'll likely end up with something unwieldly, unfocussed, and will require a lot of editing and page snipping, making the gemstone underneath all that clutter harder to find.
Thoughts?
a) put down words, then edit them - swapping words out, capitalising, trimming words to make those 3.5 lines fit neatly into 2 lines, and continually go back over previous pages time and time again or b) put down words and keep moving on, leaving them as they are - even if you've orphans, bigger blocks of action lines than you'd like, descriptions that could be tauter - just so you can finish your script?
The pro of a) is that there's less editing to do when you finish, it will look good (which is heartening) and you'll most likely have a lean script around your ideal page count but the downside is stasis - endlessly going over the first 20 pages and never finishing it (which is demoralising).
The pro of b) is that you actually finish it, have something you can analyse in full, can hand to others for their feedback but the flipside is that you'll likely end up with something unwieldly, unfocussed, and will require a lot of editing and page snipping, making the gemstone underneath all that clutter harder to find.
Thoughts?
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