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How is drafting done exactly? Is it just you pull up the script and add/take out stuff? Do you re type the whole thing and add/take away as you re type? none of the above? Please help me!
Are you referring to rewriting? If that is the case, it is however works best for you. I know some who use the first draft and then retype it, cleaning as they go. Others use red ink all over one draft and then fix whatever they've marked up. I just read what I've written making changes as I go.
Ideally, before you rewrite you take a few weeks away from it (at least two) and then look over it with a fresh mind and be overly critical of it. You have to make sure what flowed out during your first draft actually works. Youmight even find the whole thing needs an overhaul (reorganizing scenes, scrapping some scenes, writing new ones, reworking characters).
Rewriting is a necessary evil here, but it's not all that bad. Did that answer your question?
I was dreading rewriting any thing I had ever done until I found I enjoyed doing it. You can see the mistakes, and can take them out, alter the dialouge ect.
It sounded pretty drab until you start doing it, I actually enjoyed it.
You dont need to change the whole scene, just a line.
You see I think re-writing is better when you have 2 or more writers working on 1 project... Let's take an idea for example, one guy writes the screenplay, gives it off to a new guy who goes through fixing it and changing parts they don't like. If after that the script isn't to both person(s) liking you go back to the first guy who does the same and so on until you both like it.
I think if more writers did it this way we'd have more produced than unproduced writers.
when you're so close to something you can't always see the mistakes (Which is why people should post screenplays) but as I've noticed some people post them to shock and disturb as the one guy put it. Basically all the wrong reasons and they take up valuable space where people who actually need the reads don't get anything.