I’m developing a new working strategy for movie writing, which involves writing the first draft in Highland 2 because I like the empty page feel of it and because it lets me just write whatever and get all my ideas out. I then convert that file and import it into Scrivener, where I can break the script apart into sequences, make colour-coded collections for character arcs and all that stuff and really hone and edit the thing in bite-size chunks.
The process feels a lot like shooting a bunch of raw footage and then sitting down to edit it, and the division of labour between the first stage of “making shit up” and the second stage of pruning and sharpening is something I’m finding really helpful. It also makes it easier to work on more than one project at a time because I can be creating one thing whilst editing another and they feel like different tasks.
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