Screenwriting : What's your process? by Eoin O'Sullivan

Depends on what your goals are Eoin O'Sullivan . I think that there are many writers who have different goals - be a writer on a show, sell spec scripts, etc. Figure out what your goals are and align your action plan accordingly. All that to say, be you. He's right about the process and that's something we need to be willing to adjust and learn in the journey. For me, that's reading the dialogue in my scripts out loud as if it was part of a conversation...which it is.

Hey, Eoin O'Sullivan. My process for writing a feature script is I outline, rewrite the outline, write the script (and rewrite as I go), rewrite the script in categories (A Story rewrite, B Story rewrite, dialogue rewrite, etc.), then edit the script for typos. After I edit the script for typos, I turn the outline into a treatment (or just make a treatment from scratch), then I make the script poster and pitch deck.

Funny! I watched this same video about an hour and a half ago on YouTube.

Oh right, I forgot we're supposed to have one of those....

This is absolutely great. And you don't even hear him talking about the fact that writers can't optimally use both parts of their brain; the 'creative' AND the 'logical, structural' part, your either good in one or the other. So you you MUST fucus on the weaker one, and do a lot of exersices for that one, if not, your stronger poinst only get stronger and you weaker even weaker. Explained in a different video of his. I just love this guy!!

What's your process? This is a question that every writer needs to have a good answer for when it's asked in a meeting.

Well, the process to me is the paradigm. You start with the hook and move along and try to hit the different stages from beginning to end. I don't like it because it takes away from the free wheeling. Free wheeling in the sense that you need to be around so and so pages to hit the target point.

What I'm doing this time is hitting around the points but only doing my version of the stages and not following the criteria. You know what I mean? This will be my first draft. Then I'll rewrite my second draft from it, but only using the required format, points, and contents. You know what I mean?

You see, I'll have my version and the required version for the producer. Take your pick. Take the one you like the best.

Cheers, everyone.

PS. I'm starting to sound like Ernest. lol.