SYS Podcast Episode 537: Gigi Levangie Reveals Untold Secrets Behind the Making of SAW (2004)
Ashley
Now, how much time do you spend in the outline stage? Like you’re giving, you know, a thousand publishable words, your five pages. If you’re in the outline stage and how much time do you spend in the outline stage and how do you gauge whether a day spent in the outline stage is successful or not, because you don’t have those benchmarks, those clear benchmarks, like you’re talking about.
Gigi Levangie
Right, but you will feel like in terms of your time, your time output that you have done something, you’ll feel it. In terms of outline, when I’m writing a screenplay, I go back to the 10-day screenplay by Travis and Darren Donnelly. And that kind of gets you, the first day is your character sketches and then it goes from there. And then the second day is page one through 15. Like it’s not so much an outline as benchmarks. And if you know your character’s internal and external conflicts, then that’s kind of, I don’t think you need a whole outline, but you do need your ending. I think you need to write to your ending. I just think that that book is so honestly so helpful because it gets you through the first draft.
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