Pre-Writing

In general, prewriting is all the work you do before you sit down to write your screenplay. It can be outlines, treatments, notecards, or even drawings.

Look, we all love to procrastinate. There’s an essential fear when it comes to staring at the blank page. I have it. You have it.

So before we dive into all that, I want to prewrite. Your prewriting will become part of your process, so you want to tailor it to what works best for you.

Here’s what works best for me:

First things first. I have to write a logline.