…are a pain the hole. They are the worst part of screen-writing (most creative writing, really), and sadly comprise most of your writing time…
What follows is a brief overview of the writing process:
Step 1: conception! This awesome part is idea generation, wherein you get to come up with cool ideas, set pieces, characters, quotable dialogue and bits to make folk cry. I made that bitch cry, bitches love crying.
Step 2: rewriting, phase 1 (the majority of rewriting – boo hiss!). This is the part where you take all the great, fresh ideas and you go over them a million times. Don’t get me wrong, you add new stuff and that’s cool and all, but usually this is a rage filled stage wherein you hope to goodness that you have something worth spending time on. Herein lies pitfalls such as Second Act Boredom and such.
Step 3: rewriting, phase 2 – that bit where most of the shit is gone. Now you (hopefully) know you have something good and it’s mostly in front of you. You just have to figure out how to drag it from potentially great to actually great.
Step 4: final polish. Grammar and such balls. Cleaning up those bits you highlighted and said “I’ll fix this crap later”. But you’re mostly done and should reward yourself by having a wan, em, a wander. Have a nice wander about the city. Yeah…
Step 5: when you get to write ‘End’ (or, if you’re particularly classy – and not at all pretentious – ‘Fin’). This bit is awesome.
Let’s just ignore Step 6 (sending it out to reader to have it torn apart) and Step 7 (back to Step 2, sucka!) for now. Instead, let’s have toast and play video games, shall we?
Rewrites…
…are a pain the hole. They are the worst part of screen-writing (most creative writing, really), and sadly comprise most of your writing time…
What follows is a brief overview of the writing process:
Step 1: conception! This awesome part is idea generation, wherein you get to come up with cool ideas, set pieces, characters, quotable dialogue and bits to make folk cry. I made that bitch cry, bitches love crying.
Step 2: rewriting, phase 1 (the majority of rewriting – boo hiss!). This is the part where you take all the great, fresh ideas and you go over them a million times. Don’t get me wrong, you add new stuff and that’s cool and all, but usually this is a rage filled stage wherein you hope to goodness that you have something worth spending time on. Herein lies pitfalls such as Second Act Boredom and such.
Step 3: rewriting, phase 2 – that bit where most of the shit is gone. Now you (hopefully) know you have something good and it’s mostly in front of you. You just have to figure out how to drag it from potentially great to actually great.
Step 4: final polish. Grammar and such balls. Cleaning up those bits you highlighted and said “I’ll fix this crap later”. But you’re mostly done and should reward yourself by having a
wan, em, a wander. Have a nice wander about the city. Yeah…Step 5: when you get to write ‘End’ (or, if you’re particularly classy – and not at all pretentious – ‘Fin’). This bit is awesome.
Let’s just ignore Step 6 (sending it out to reader to have it torn apart) and Step 7 (back to Step 2, sucka!) for now. Instead, let’s have toast and play video games, shall we?