“Unveiling Secrets: Jon Gunn Reveals the Hidden Truths Behind Storytelling in SYS Podcast Episode 532!”
Ashley
But that’s a two-week process, doing all that. Are you writing things down on note cards and an outline? And then how long does it take you to actually bash out that draft? Once you have all that.
Jon Gunn
I usually start to get a pretty good sense of my act breaks, and I start to drop note cards of a lot of different ideas and see where they fit. And then I usually, before I start writing, I will figure out the shape of what all the scenes are. So, I’ll create a treatment or a beat sheet, where I kind of have a summary of every scene. And I’m like, then I start to find out I have too many scenes in the beginning of act two. Like it’s taking too long to get to Austin at 13. And that’s always a problem, right?
