Empress Simone's Lounge Discussions

Welcome to Stage 32 and my network Nahni! Happy networking!

Welcome Nahni so glad to have you on board and lots of writers on STAGE32 so you should have lots of great connections to hook up with.

Great!

Hi Nahni! I am definitely interested in networking with you!

Welcome to Stage 32!

I outline like crazy. I start with the broad strokes and then go back and revise the outline to slowly build it out. Sequences start to get broken up into individual scenes and then if I have a line of dialogue that pops in my head for a potential scene I put that in the outline. Then I go to script and keep referring back to my outline for guidance.

1. Outline or bullet point scene ideas

   2. Write first draft and spot edit during creation process

   3. Visually read through first draft screenplay and let Final Draft speech control read through the script aloud. I particularly enjoy the UK woman's voice. During this process I find omitted words, typos and trim non value-added of dialogue and narrative.

   4. Give the script to one or two writers I trust. I have writing friends that are great at catching things I miss and making plot or editing suggestions. Incorporate occasional great ideas from other writers.

   5. Revisit scripts that interest producers and do more fine-tuning before I send them out.

   6. Revisit work at a later date.

   My style is creating an easy read with load's of white space.

I'm traditionally a "pantser". Trying the whole outline thing on my new script. We'll see how it goes. I'm already fighting tendencies to just write. :p

I try to figure out what I want to say or the meaning of the story what the point of the story is. I guess it would be considered the thread the protagonist is on what he;she needs to learn. Then I decide how the story will end. then I write to that end. Crazy right?

Logline: To bring down a corrupt city government, a young lawyer must prove that the arrest of

a teacher at a couples sex club was the cause of her suicide; not her alternative lifestyle.

The ending comes down to the lawyer proving the thing that he needs to learn to understand his flaw and change.

I outline the hell out of it first using the same technique i used when i was studying Law before getting in Film. I put on paper everything i would like to see regarding my general idea (bullet points). Then i step back to have an overall view of the ideas. Then i keep which ideas i really like the most. Then i build the characters and i link the bullet points regarding to the defined characters. After all that i write a treatment.