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Fifteen Barely

Fifteen Barely

I accomplished quite a bit today with the single-paragraph Story Outline for my The Final Ritual scriptwriting project. Fifteen single paragraphs in about five hours doesn’t read like much. But that averages one paragraph every twenty minutes. That doesn’t read very well either, but it’s better than not getting the fifteen written.

Each paragraph is four or five lines long depending on whether the characters have two or three scenes within that Act. That’s two scenes equal four lines and three scenes equal five lines. That is how I write my single-paragraph Outlines. There is a pattern to them.

My scripts are different than my Outlines. They are based on the number of seconds within a scene. Each scene is twenty-two seconds/lines, twenty-six seconds/lines, or thirty seconds/lines long. These seconds/lines equal thirty seconds/lines per scene. Thirty seconds/lines times two hundred scenes equals a one-hundred-minute movie.

I can be more patterned with my Outlines because they are mostly for my benefit. It’s true, they can be used to get a production company, agent, etc. interested in your project whether it’s a movie or television. But they are mostly there to help with writing the script.

At least my Outlines are for me. Of course, my Outlines can change between my Story Outline, my Scene Outline, and my scripts. That’s what rewrites are for. But overall, they will remain the same. That is why I’m starting with the Story Outline for this project now. I was thinking about starting with the Scene Outline.

After all, I can always rewrite part or all of my Story Outline. That’s true if I need to update my Story Outline, and Scene Outline when I start writing my scripts. I don’t think I will need to do that with this project. But I haven’t started writing my Scene Outline or script yet.

Hopefully, I will get at least fifteen more single paragraphs written tomorrow. I would like it to be a lot more than that. But another fifteen would be fine too. I’m thinking twenty to twenty-five tomorrow, but I’m not going to count on that until it happens. After all, I don’t know what my brother and I need to do tomorrow.

As far as I know, my brother and I don’t have too much that we need to do tomorrow, if we need to do anything. But if we do, hopefully, it won’t take us too long to do them. If that’s true, then I may be able to get at least fifteen more single paragraphs written tomorrow.