Anyone here likes to hand write the first  draft of a script?

If I go somewhere and know I may have some down time, I'll bring a pen and paper.  I've written scenes that I later type into the computer.  I won't write a full draft on paper, though.  I'm something of a perfectionist when it comes to physically writing.  If I get sloppy, I will rip a whole page out of the book and start ober


Phil

I´m thinking in start writing a short on paper, and only then type into computer. I feel that just a pen and a paper gives me more mobility and freedom to write wherever and whenever i want. Sure, i can do this with a laptop, but to me doesn´t feel that easy and simple to carry around a machine everytime i want to write in a more enjoyable place than my office(a garden, for example).

Yep, I write all my features/shorts by hand then put them on the computer at a later date.
If I sit down at the computer to write fresh stuff, it won't get done because I'll be off surfing the Net or playing online games.

I'll sit down in a chair with my notebook and can get 3 or 4 pages done. lately I've been writing in the car waiting to pick my daughter up at school.

When I'm tired and can't think properly, I transcibe the stuff I've done on the computer. This fulfils a second chore too - you can edit what you've written as you go, sometimes think of new stuff. That's why I never hardly do re-wrires - its all done as I go.
When I'm not actually writing, I'm always thinking ahead to the next scenes, especially when I first go to sleep.

Writing by hand is sort of double handling but it works for me.

Cheers stevie

I've written entire scenes on notebook paper and dialogue on napkins and even the backs of receipts. If there's something I feel absolutely has to be written down at the moment I'm thinking about it, I do so. I could never write an entire script longhand though. I actually feel less flexibility writing by hand. I like to write at a speed as close to the scene itself as possible which I just can't do on paper. I also can't play with lines or go back and change anything without scribbling all over the place.

I find handwriting extremely useful at the times I feel I have to do it and would say it's a fairly regular part of my creative process but for the most part, it slows me down and makes the writing process much more tedious than it needs to be. Contrary-wise, I feel equally confined by screenwriting programs like FinalDraft. I find the middle ground by using Microsoft Word.

Don't mean to be a downer, but in the last 5 years I've been here, I think I've seen every question related to script writing there is...maybe it's time for me to move on...

After the 7WC...

They're supposedly making a Final Draft app for the iPad.  That'll be cool.


Phil

The guy who first taught me screenwriting recommended using A3 sketch pads.

He'd draw a line down the middle of the page, so that you had two sides of A4. The right hand side was for notes..you'd write down what was supposed to happen in the scene, thoughts the characetrs had...whatever came to mind.

The left side was for the script itself. The idea being to develop the story on the other page, then create it propelry in script form on the left.

It's quite a good system. I use it to this day, except I use a hard back A4 pad...so when it's open you've got the two pages facing each other.

Nope. My laptop follows me everywhere, so I have no need to hand write. <3



Though, pre-laptop, I've done what Dogglebe did several times before.

Quoted from Splinter Anyone here likes to hand write the first  draft of a script?

The plot is sketched out by hand.