Sunday night
Feb. 25th, 2007 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithYup, working on the Gideon storyline. Scrivener has this neat feature called Corkboard, which looks like index cards tacked to a--wait for it--corkboard. I've used one board for character descriptions, and am using another for the plot outline. It's nice because I always used to do this stuff on paper, and then lose it.
A book by David Mamet was reviewed in today's paper. I confess to knowing little of Mamet except that he is a playwright. What caught my eye was the screenwriting tip of his contained within the review, which works on the three basic questions approach:
"Who wants what from whom?"
"What happens if they don't get it?"
"Why now?"
Works for me, since I tend to think that screenwriting tips are simply plotting tips by another name.
A book by David Mamet was reviewed in today's paper. I confess to knowing little of Mamet except that he is a playwright. What caught my eye was the screenwriting tip of his contained within the review, which works on the three basic questions approach:
"Who wants what from whom?"
"What happens if they don't get it?"
"Why now?"
Works for me, since I tend to think that screenwriting tips are simply plotting tips by another name.
