Scenes that have no real outcome of turning into an actual screenplay. Random ideas pop into my head and I write them down.
Screenwriting : Question: Is it a good idea to just write random scenes? by Ann Burr
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I have no idea how it could hurt, but all of those scenes may not add up to anything and may not fit in any story. Might be good practice (though probably better practice to write scenes that have a story purpose).
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Yep, I do it all the time and file them away. I also write my scripts in a random scene fashion based on my beatsheet fhen put it all together when I have finished
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I write random scenes all the time. sometimes they can work, sometimes not, sometimes they go into something else. quite often they are great little scenes i'll keep for one reason or another. writing is writing. it's all good.
It's funny because I will see something,such as 2people talking on the street. I will come up on a whole scene of what they are doing. Or I will see an old house and want to give it a story.
What William Martell said. Within reason, writing random scenes can be a helpful exercise and occasionally one of those scenes may lead to a screenplay, but they're also a great way to avoid real writing, meaning writing that leads to a completed screenplay.
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People have based entire scenes on a joke so why not build a movie from a scene. All things are built from components, so yes:-)