Why Outline?
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Do we HAVE to? Doesn't an outline take all the joy out of writing?!
It's up to you - BUT before you decide: this video takes down 5 REASONS PEOPLE DON'T OUTLINE and gives you 10 REASONS why you should!
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Outline is where you can be creative. Where you brainstorm and understand your story before starting the real writing or the main thing. For example, let's take (breakfast and lunch) you could skip breakfast and everything will be okay, but eating breakfast will give you an advantage or the high ground (More focus, less confusion). Thank you for this awesome video
Really great Glenn - thank you. Outlines really save my life -specially for specificity and writing scenes that are - in fact - actions. For example, while outlining I could literally " see" my character. I thought she was something but when I saw her actions in the outline - I truly understood her. Wow it was amazing. Phew. Makes sense?
Yes it does make sense! As I say in the video: making an outline is a CREATIVE act. You see the scenes, you get the inspiration just as much in the outline as in the writing. Get it all down on a page, it doesn't matter where it comes from or when it happens. Just keeping making things into scenes!
You sir, are honestly a very good teacher. You not only provide experience and knowledge but you too mixed that with respects to all the psychological aspects of what it feels like (trying) to be a writer while wrapping everything in digestible, memorable chunks of practical information while going about it humbly but in an entertaining way. Hats off!
For over a week now i start my daily sessions with one of your vids. 👏
Thank you so much!!
Your theme music is very well chosen for your teaching style: infectiously exciting, steadily driving, quite elegant.
Thank you! The composer is Joel Corelitz
I appreciate the logic shared while also saying at the onset there are no rules to how you write: the tool analogy is applied well!
I am not a panster. Maybe for an idea, a scene, or a free-writing exercise but I need an outline to know where I'd be going.
So glad it's connecting and useful!
Thank you for sharing your insights on outlines!
You're very welcome!
Thank you!
I'm not a writer, but stumbled across your videos and found your content super helpful. (CZcams algorithms are a mystery). Your suggestions and questions work for narrative as well. I've been struggling to write my dad's biography for years, and was stuck. He was a sculptor living through colorful times. The story sounded like a second grader put it together. Thinking in scenes changes everything. It suggests dialogue. It engages the senses. Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me - it really makes doing this worthwhile. I guess you are a writer, though, if you've been writing :)
Thanks, i'm really going to try it!
Great, I hope it helps - or at least steers you toward what is right for you! I have changed my methods of doing this many times over the years - it's not like there's only one way. The main thing is to be looking for YOUR way.
I finish this first and then I will write further, but the first impression is astonishing! Understanding - Topnotch, can't complain, must praise :D
Now looking further!
I finished it and it stayed informative. Nicely done. I could relate myself into it, but now I'm more certain about not being at the bottom of "Story" writing.
So now here comes the thing I mentioned earlier.
Outlines are very much notes, but attached with details to each scene in an episode in a volume of a story.
So, outlining scenes is already ahead of my doing... Rather than actually writing the script of actions( even tho I have multiple scenes already in my head since years, trying to polish them into perfection) I am outlining in what kind of a world the story takes place. Orders, so to speak - a world with their own set rules and phenomenons. I try to detail as much as possible into what makes my story different from others. Especially because it's a fantasy I make sure to fill it up with "new" fundamentals and later on I can introduce more complex unique elements into the play.
Generally speaking, outlines are very handy. Related to my beginning story I can just write down the milestones I want in my story because of the structure of outlines.
As mentioned in the video it is by far easier to redirect things in the outlines. So If I decide that my first milestone in the story fits logically better at the position of the second and the second won't interfere with the story by the position of the first, its better in the outlines rather than a full on script.
Anyways, great video. I liked it)))
I'm very glad it's helpful!
Great video!
Thank you!!
Thank you.
I'm so impressed and grateful that you're watching them all.
In the best possible way, you remind me of the Adrian Bliss of screenwriters.😆
Thank for the indispensable information. So good ❗️
Thank you so much !
Thank you! I will outline. I think I was mixing it up with planning. Maybe I'm confused but I will watch your 'How to outline' and find out :))))
I think it is kind of planning - but you don't have to OVER-plan, you can just use it to help you not get lost.
@@writingforscreens I very much appreciate your gift of teaching Glenn. :))) Your 'How to Outline' was superb. To help me apply your outlining form to my own story ideas I'm practicing by going through a published writer's story and making notes in their book on how they formed their story into scenes, and noting their use of flashbacks/symbols/sudden shifts in understanding, etc. It's very helpful. Especially because I noticed this particular writer wrote her story almost as a script (it Was made into a movie). But now I think I can apply this exercise to a much more complex story idea (which most definitely is mine) 🍎🍏🍎
@@ozdigg9254 Thank you for telling me about this, it sounds like a very useful example of "taking art apart"! Very cool!
My favorite is #3
I love that you have a favorite :) ! Thank you!
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Very good video! I´m subscribing once it finishes :)
Welcome! So glad to have you watching!!
@@writingforscreens My pleasure. I was wondering if you have a video that talks about sequence? If so can you point me to it? I been checking out this 8 sequence structure but is not so clear to me. Hope you have something on the matter. Thanks! :)
@@ricardourroz9322 I'm not sure what the "8 Sequence Structure" is. If you're referring to the quote from Kubrick - I think he has a fair point, but it's not a full "theory". I believe I get into it a bit more in my video on "SET PIECES" - czcams.com/video/sROKfXMcOYk/video.html
@@writingforscreens This is a way to structure a screenplay, where you are supposed to have 2 sequences in the 1st act, 4 in the second and 2 in the third. Of course as any other structure "template" or is not set in stone though. But wanted to know more about it. Maybe it has another name. Still I will look at your video you mentioned. Thanks
@@ricardourroz9322 Ahhh, yes - I get it. Well, that's certainly a fair set of proportions for the acts. If you're doing a standard 3-act structure, you do want the 1st and 3rd acts each to be about 50% the size of the 2nd Act. But I don't know how you could possibly say that all scripts should have any particular number of scenes or sequences. I don't like to slam other people's teaching and theories, but that's just clearly not a real rule. A quick survey of a bunch of scripts or movies will show that not to be true.
I certainly don't want to crash and burn, especially while holding my ill-fated script! An outline it is!
What can it hurt?
All I do is outline lol. But now I know I've been doing it wrong thank you so much.
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nice
Thanks!
i got stuck ina a script for a long time because i didnt made an outline
I'm glad to hear you're thinking about that now and hope you feel like there's ways out of getting stuck.
Outlins it tale as act 1,act2and act 3 the story end
Yes, I do agree all stories work that way.
Ok . If u can show me exampl
@@Birhanugkedan-pl2fs I'm sorry, I really can't do that here. There are many "how to write screenplays" books, each with a different way of explaining it, and I am sure many many videos as well.
It will take time to learn it, but if you keep exploring and studying it I am sure you will find a way of understanding that works for you.
ok think u