Originally posted by Cyfress
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Writing in Sequence or Not?
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arduous: involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
Good Writing is arduous , isn't it? As far as expensive, not sure what you mean. Poor use of time trying to cement in stone the beats to your story? If that's not the end goal of your process then what is?
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Originally posted by Cyfress View PostTo write out of sequence you literally need to have cemented in stone what comes before. .I heard the starting gun
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Working on new spec... just finished Act One... about 30 pages... but I was excited to write a scene that happens on page 60 vs page 30 and just said, let me write it now. It's in my head. And it may be the best scene I've ever written! But it's really good.
I did have a 7 page outline of the entire movie, so I think without knowing the major beats I would not be able to do that.
It's fun. Give it a shot.
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I wrote a lot of the scenes out of sequence. I found it refreshing.
Now I did write Act One first, but I just had fun writing scenes for the rest of the spec (Act II and III) in any order that I felt like that day instead of forcing myself to write the next scene that I wasn't excited to write that day.
I finished the vomit draft. Working on rewrite now. Got good notes from a few writers -- some on this board. Thank you.
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Originally posted by Bono View PostDo you write your screenplays from A to Z.... page 1 to page 110.... keep building.... or do you sometimes write the first ten pages... the last ten pages.... whatever scene you feel like writing today and just jump around?
That said, I've always been attracted to applications like Scrivener, where everything is compartmentalized into little chunks and you write to an outline, using it as the story's backbone. But when I try it, it doesn't seem to work out at all. It seems too "mechanical" or too much "paint by number" and too "blah." (Probably subconsciously attracted to these applications because I know I need better structure but I don't have the discipline to apply them.)STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I'm a wannabe, take whatever I write with a huge grain of salt.
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