{"id":42,"date":"2007-03-25T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/25\/a-screenwriting-timeline\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T04:11:38","slug":"a-screenwriting-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/a-screenwriting-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Screenwriting Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the milestones for a typical script:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/making-stuff-up\/trackback\/\" target=\"_blank\">what-if?<\/a> moment (or maybe finding inspiration in something I read <a href=\"http:\/\/jerslater.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/on-writers-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">somewhere<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>gestation;<\/li>\n<li>a prose treatment, usually sprinkled with script-formatted scenes that Just Can&#8217;t Wait;<\/li>\n<li>enforced break;<\/li>\n<li>caution thrown to the wind and first draft blasted out by deadline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks easy, don&#8217;t it? <strong>Idea. Treatment. Script.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah, right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is missing from the above timeline is that any and all of those stages are apt to be repeated over and over, usually in full, sometimes &#8211; only if I&#8217;m extraordinarily lucky &#8211; <strong>sometimes<\/strong> only partially.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a grind. It&#8217;s lonely. And it <strong>takes time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But it beats working for The Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the milestones for a typical script: the what-if? moment (or maybe finding inspiration in something I read somewhere); gestation; a prose treatment, usually sprinkled with script-formatted scenes that Just Can&#8217;t Wait; enforced break; caution thrown to the wind and first draft blasted out by deadline. Looks easy, don&#8217;t it? Idea. Treatment. Script. Yeah, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/a-screenwriting-timeline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Screenwriting Timeline&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[374,376,375],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-idea","tag-script","tag-treatment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}