Writing Your script: Do A Little Each Day

Write Your Screenplay in 10 Minutes a Day

Pilar Alessandra gives you his insights into stealing time to write your script. Get a glimpse at how easy it is outline your story in as much time as it takes to update your Facebook.

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I know you’re busy. Trust me, I’m with you. You’ve got work, school, kids, you name it. Family counts on you, friends need you – someone’s probably e-mailing, texting or instant messaging you right now! 

So how in the heck are you going to find time to write? Well, look down at that smart-phone or computer. You already are. 

Be honest. How many times a day do you sneak in a Facebook post, send a brilliant thought through Twitter or entertain a far-away friend with a text? Every time you do, you’re writing. 

You’re relating an anecdote; describing a person you met, engaging in a conversation. In other words, you’re focusing on story, character and dialogue all day long. 

So, you might as well do it for your screenplay. 

Try it. Apply those same stolen moments of time to your script. Instead of telling your friend what happened that day (really, she can wait), quickly synopsize your movie idea. Instead of texting gossip about that person you met in an elevator, create a piece of scene direction that might describe that person as they enter a movie scene. Instead of engaging in a cutesy I.M., write a “cute meet” between two characters. 

Suddenly, your stolen moments of time are productively moving you towards a screenplay. 

Hello, readers.
Here's something I found interesting for would be script writers who are busy with the cares of the world.

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Think it can’t be done? Let’s try it out. See how quickly you can actually outline your movie by choosing to focus on one element per ten-minute break.

• Commit 10 minutes to telling a simple story with a great idea. Describe it in a paragraph or two as though telling a friend about a great movie. That’s your synopsis.
• Commit 10 minutes to dividing that story into four sections. Give each section a title. Those are your acts.
• Commit 10 minutes per act to brainstorming the major events that happen in each section. Those are your sequences or “beats.”
• Commit 10 minutes per sequence to brainstorming the cool details, character moments, and smaller actions. Those are your scenes.

Congratulations. Outline finished. 

This isn’t to say that you need to cut all of your Facebook, Twitter and texting time. But look at how quickly you just moved through your outline when social networking suddenly turned into screenwriting. 

Do keep texting, though — because you’re actually teaching yourself to write. Yeah, you read that correctly. All of this texting and tweeting has taught us how to focus our stories and edit. 

You choose your words carefully and well when you “tweet” a joke using only 140 characters. You’ve learned how to create urgency or coax a smile with only a few choice words sent in a quick text. You edit your e-mails to make sure that you’re not burying an important point. 

All of these skills are the same ones a writer brings to scene honing and dialogue doctoring. So why not try a rewrite on your script with the same attention to detail? 

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