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A Complete Start Over

A Complete Start Over

I don’t want to do this, but I found another problem with my Water Wars scriptwriting project. Only this problem will call for me to start this project over from scratch. Well, it may not be completely from scratch. The storylines are the same. It’s just how I represent them that’s different.

The Act Breakdowns will probably be the same. After all, the storylines are still the same. It’s my sentence and paragraph Outlines that will need to be updated. Why am I being forced to do this? I’m not being forced to do it. I need to do it because of this problem.

What is my latest problem? Especially one that makes me start completely over from almost scratch. It’s the end of Part One and the beginning of Part Two of my Movie Introduction. There is only one numeric scene that separates two of my main characters. That doesn’t sound like a big deal to probably anyone else, but it does to me.

It also affects the individual episodes, but no one will probably notice that to me. It’s the Movie Introduction that is my main problem. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice it until I finished the sentence Scene Outline for Part One of my new format update. I was just getting started with the Part Two sentence Scene Outline when I noticed it.

I spend the rest of my eight-hour shift at work working on my new spreadsheet for this project. I think that I have solved the problem. Unfortunately, I had to go back to the main character for that Act beginning and ending that Act alone. Before, it was two characters doing this.

The Teaser, Tag, and individual Acts have changed. Now, the Teaser and Tag Acts are fifteen scenes long, and the four main Acts are thirty scenes long. I like this a lot better than when it was twenty-five for each Act. The total number of scenes is still the same, though.

Unfortunately, the Scenes Fives and Scenes Tens are still lopsided for the main characters that start and end the Act, but it works itself out by the end of the Outline and scripts. It also works out for the secondary characters of Reen, Voonc, and Kirra. Especially in the four main Acts. They each have a five or ten scene in them.

I still have some work to do on my spreadsheet before I start working on my Act breakdowns, Story Outlines, and Scene Outlines sentences and paragraphs. After all, I barely got the character scene numbers part of this spreadsheet finished earlier this morning. These scene numbers need to be checked out for several reasons first.