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Other then going through several rounds of edits. I started a new script that’s sort of a mystery/suspense/horror.

what genre are you working on? 

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Currently mulling over a horror/comedy. Still working on the outline. You?

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Mine is a horror suspense I just started. I’m about 20 pages in, but I thought I’d a new, more visual opening sequence the other night so I’m probably going to rewrite my first 5 or 6 pages this weekend before I charge further into what’s coming. 

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Do you have an outline or are you going the pantster route?

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This time I actually did a small outline (usually I’m a pantser).

This is, at its heart a mystery, so I wanted to have specific beats where clues are dropped and layered into the narrative smoothly. 

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Excellent. A nice little hack is to start at the end and outline backwards.

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I always edit that way. 🙂 

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You're doing it right!

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I try. 🙂

of course, I’ve been told I’m very trying. 🙂

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What is a "pantser"?

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That's when someone writes by the seat of their pants with no outline.

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I rewrote the first 14 pages over the weekend to better bring out the visuals and (hopefully) show the tone better.

and remove all the God Awful exposition I littered the initial pages with. 

it reads better (still not perfect).

but I’ve got the first 21 pages complete now and have a 3 day weekend coming up to work on it. 🙂

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Good man! Keep it up! Let me know when you get to mid act 2. 

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Will do! 🙂

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I'm revising and restructuring a 30mintue episode that plays like a Scooby Doo mystery. Then, I need to get back to my Halloween Coming of Age teen horror script.

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oooooh that sounds fun!

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