Outlining

[Centos]

Re: Outlining

I wasn't being "absolute" in that every professional assignment requires it, but I do put it at close to 100% that you will have to outline for someone at some point if you're a professional.

Okay. Sorry for overreacting. (I do that.) Also working with a partner would make a big difference. You would have to have some way to coordinate your writing.

[Centos]

Re: Outlining

For me, outlining happens when a scrappy text file, that contains just a premise and some ideas for key scenes/imagery/characters/dialogue, starts to become a skeleton story. It's when the ideas begin slotting into sequence and snowballing. Then I put some meat on its bones and gradually that 'outline' develops into the first draft.

I think I do close to the same thing in my head. Basically I "see" a scene and then I try to figure out how the character got there. Once I figure that out, and "see" how it's going to end, I start writing directly into screenplay format.