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dogglebe
Posted: January 31st, 2013, 5:48pm Report to Moderator
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This isn't the name of a script or movie, but wouldn't it be cool if it was?  I sense a OWC coming up!

Janet introduced me to this phrase today.  It refers to the first draft of a script where you just put it all out there.  Don't worry about page count  or whether you think it's important or anything like that.  Just write and keep writing until you finish your story.  

One of my features was 180 pages long in it's first draft.  After four or five revisions, I got it down to something acceptable.


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@dogglebe

Yes, it's like you said, your first draft, more like a rough draft. no re-writes, no nothing.

I'm a little surprised by this--?

Ghost


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dogglebe
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With the exception of minor changes in previous pages, I don't go back and look at things until I'm done with the first draft.  Sure, second draft is a PITA but it beats constantly going back and making changes.

Wait until you're done.


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Janet and I were jawing about those recently too.
It's something I heard from another writer I'm collaborating with.

I like the term. Good shorthand in conversation.
It aptly describes that first thing that shoots out of your brain onto the page.

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I teach this in my beginners classes. It's a great term, the perfect term. Just get the words on the page, dump them and don't look back. Fix it all in the rewrite. But it only works if you have a solid treatment to work from, otherwise you end up spinning your wheels trying to make decisions you should have made before you started writing the script.


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This is why I like writing by hand ( though my current script I'm doing directly onto an IPad app called Scripts Pro) - I write a few pages by hand then copy onto the computer, say, a week later.

Then, as I'm copying, I can revise as I go, think of new stuff,etc. It seems like double handling but means I don't have to do hardly any rewriting or numerous drafts.

This mightn't work for everyone but it works for me. And it can keep the story fresh and you don't get sick of returning to it



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Thought this was about late Friday night writing - we've all been there.

@stevie - you should try Final draft for IPad -  it's great.


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Quoted from Reef Dreamer
Thought this was about late Friday night writing - we've all been there.

@stevie - you should try Final draft for IPad -  it's great.


Isn't it like, 40 bucks?  I guess it would be good tough. But my one is doing the job. It was crap a few months back but they did an update. It exports to Dropbox then I can import the file onto my Sophocles software on the computer and I'm away.



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This isn't the name of a script or movie, but wouldn't it be cool if it was?  I sense a OWC coming up!



So the next OWC is going to be about vomit?
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Quoted from stevie


Isn't it like, 40 bucks?  I guess it would be good tough. But my one is doing the job. It was crap a few months back but they did an update. It exports to Dropbox then I can import the file onto my Sophocles software on the computer and I'm away.


Well it cost me circa £25, but it's a cheap way of getting FD, IMO - I had script pro,and screenplay  and ithey drove me mad, probably better now. Just say FD iPad  is good. Also exports in PDF now which it didn't at the beginning.


My scripts  HERE

The Elevator Most Belonging To Alice - Semi Final Bluecat, Runner Up Nashville
Inner Journey - Page Awards Finalist - Bluecat semi final
Grieving Spell - winner - London Film Awards.  Third - Honolulu
Ultimate Weapon - Fresh Voices - second place
IMDb link... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7062725/?ref_=tt_ov_wr
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So the next OWC is going to be about vomit?


Be spewin' if it isn't...




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Quoted from Reef Dreamer


Well it cost me circa �25, but it's a cheap way of getting FD, IMO - I had script pro,and screenplay  and ithey drove me mad, probably better now. Just say FD iPad  is good. Also exports in PDF now which it didn't at the beginning.


I'll check it out. Scripts Pro exports PDF too. No prob with it. Ok, the FD app will have more bells and whistle options but SP is doing it nicely for me.
Ok, the FD app is $52 here which is sorta out of my budget, lol

Oh, and I haven't said this for a couple of days so...

NINERS ALL DA WAY, BABY!!!



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I do this, but then go back and rewrite each act before going onto the second one. Means that when I finally do finish the 'first draft', it's not a million miles away from where it needs to be in terms of structure or length, thus making the next rewrites not too arduous as a task.

Toby.


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"Vomit Draft": to open the car window for a rush of fresh air so your 6 year old daughter in the back seat doesn't vomit.
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I'm so glad I'm not a parent...    (Though, do German Shepherd that get car sick count?)  
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