dialyn opened this issue on Mar 16, 2005 ยท 6 posts
dialyn posted Wed, 16 March 2005 at 1:03 PM
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The Expanded Scene Breakdown is a 20 to 40+ page point by point, step by step, scene by scene outline of the entire screenplay in prose form using dialogue, character development, action, etc. It's an essential way to see the entire movie before you reach the screenplay stage. You might get some ideas for how to utilize this technique in other writing tasks. The article isn't long, is easy to read, and there are links to other useful articles as well.
hanevi posted Wed, 16 March 2005 at 1:25 PM
This is very interesting. I think that's right-impatience kills, and wishful daydreaming that wants to escape the grind of really getting a piece of writing together or a piece of art, for that matter. They teach all this to us in the physiology lab, when planning an experiment, but we never seem to apply it to other areas of life. Thanks for the link. Fair winds and glad fortune to you.
dialyn posted Wed, 16 March 2005 at 1:50 PM
I think we just get so eager to start writing that we don't want to take time to plan, but the eagerness sometimes dries up before the writing has finished. I read about a strategy one writer has. She has a story bag into which she drops her notes for stories. It can be plot points, bits of dialogue, a scene description, or just a general note to herself, but they all go into her story bag. Then, when she is ready, she takes out the various bits and sorts them out and says that she finds the story take shape in all of these bits and parts. Now for the people who start on page 1 and write until the end, this method wouldn't work; but I am more of a quilt writer and I can see the logic behind taking the bits and pieces and patching them together. The point is...no system is wrong if it works for you. :)
dido6 posted Wed, 16 March 2005 at 3:53 PM
This is awesome! Thank you so much, I'm going to pass this on to my brother too :)
japes posted Thu, 17 March 2005 at 7:17 AM
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There are lots of good articles on this site. Thanks. Here is a link to the rest of the articles.
deemarie posted Thu, 17 March 2005 at 7:26 AM
Wow this site has a wealth of helpful information on it - thanks once more dialyn for giving us some writing fuel! Dee-Marie