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Part of the Slowdown

Part of the slowdown

I got seventy-five sentences written for the Episode One Scene Outline for my DeathBringers scriptwriting project. It would have been more, maybe even another fifty, to end this episode, but I had some updating with my Act Breakdown and my Story Outlines that slowed me down in getting more written. So, I got closer to a hundred written today.

Why did I have some updating to do? It’s because of the three storylines associated with Episode One. The storylines are still the same. It is how they are presented that is causing the slowdown of this episode. This isn’t an unusual updating process for me. I often have to update my Act Breakdown and Story Outlines because of these changes.

That’s why I use Act Breakdowns and Story Outlines to write my Scene Outlines. The Act Breakdowns are used for the Story Outlines, and the Story Outlines are used for the Scene Outlines. When something goes wrong with the Scene Outlines, it can affect the Story Outlines. Sometimes it also affects the Act Breakdown, and sometimes it doesn’t.

The Story Outlines are broken up into two or three sentences and paragraphs for each of the three or four storylines. These episodes have only three storylines, while the four-part mini-series had four storylines for each part that connected these storylines to the other three parts of this mini-series. Does that make any sense to anyone but me?

For these episodes, there are seven sentences, soon to be paragraphs, for each Act. Three sentences are for the main storyline for that Act, and two sentences for the other two storylines. The three-sentence storylines represent three scene numbers for each sentence: the two-sentence storylines represent four scene numbers for each storyline.

When I wrote my Act Breakdown for this episode, I wrote a sentence to represent the six Acts associated with this episode or each of the three main characters. After I wrote them, I transferred those sentences into my Story Outline. Each Act and sentence from my Act Breakdown was transcribed into two or three sentences on my Story Outline.

After I finished writing my Story Outline, I started writing my Scene Outline. I try to follow the Story Outline, but sometimes I can’t do that for one reason or another. That’s when the updating of the Story Outline, and sometimes the Act Breakdown, happens. That is why I only got seventy-five sentences written for this project today.

That leaves me with only fifty more sentences before I finish writing the Episode One Scene Outline for this anthology television series. After I get this finished, I will start working on the Episode Two, ‘After the Vexions,’ Story Outline tomorrow. I should get to Episode Two tomorrow, but will I get the Story Outline written tomorrow?

That’s a very good question. It may depend on how much updating I need to do with the last two Acts for Episode One. If I don’t need to do a lot of updating, I may be able to get the Story Outline for Episode Two done tomorrow, especially if I have about three or more hours to work on this project. That’s also up in the air right now.