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In writing in general, there are discovery writers and outliners, planners vs. pantsers. I am very curious to know how screenwriters create screenplays. Do writers start with a basic plot and th...
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System
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2019-12-08T05:49:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Nikos K.
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2019-12-08T05:49:06Z (almost 5 years ago)
In writing in general, there are discovery writers and outliners, planners vs. pantsers. I am very curious to know how screenwriters create screenplays. Do writers start with a basic plot and then add the scenes and arrange them, expanding on the plan? Or do they have a very very tiny basic plot and write the scenes in a more freestyle way? **Is planning/discovery significantly different when the goal is a screenplay instead of a short story or novel?** One reason I wonder about this is that a screenplay is meant as a collaborative tool, while a novel/short-story is the finished product. Is more planning needed if more people will be involved, and because the goal is a fixed amount of pages/minutes? Or can you "pants" it, and then use the editing/collaboration time to bring things into focus?
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System
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2016-12-21T19:53:51Z (almost 8 years ago)
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