Quantum Storytelling

This is how I’m working these days, and boy is it ever working. The process goes like this:

1. Early Creative Soup
• Create story beats as index cards within SuperNotecard.
• Break beats down into separate individual scenes.
• Keep adding scenes and filling in the story til you reach 60+, the rough number of scenes in a feature length film.
• Shuffle things around as necessary.
2. Treatment
• Write out scenes in present-tense, abbreviated treatment form. You can do some of this during the Early Creative Soup stage if you feel the scene ideas are developed enough.
• Clean things up, arrange, rearrange until happy with scene order and full story.
• Fit it all into a tight three act structure if you can.
3. Execute the Medium
• Draft each scene as novel prose.
• Draft each scene in screenplay format.
4. Editing & Revisions
• Revise and edit drafts to clean up prose, fix errors, etc.
• Ship it!

That’s all!