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Episode Four Started

Episode Four Started

I started writing Episode Four, Probable Death, Scene Outline, yesterday evening and overnight today. But I only got the first ten numeric scenes written today for the Teaser Act of my Water Wars scriptwriting project. I also got the two Establishing Shots that started this Teaser Act.

That’s only twelve paragraphs that I got written for Episode Four of this Scene Outline. I was hoping I would get five to ten more paragraphs written, but I didn’t get them. I barely got the twelve written. It should have been five to ten more paragraphs, but it wasn’t.

Why didn’t I write those extra paragraphs for this Scene Outline? I had problems starting this episode and with the last fifteen numeric scenes for the Episode Three Scene Outline. It took me longer than I thought to finish writing the previous fifteen paragraphs for Episode Three.

It took me about five hours to finish writing the Episode Three Scene Outline. Why did it take me so long to write these paragraphs? I don’t know why it took me so long to write them. Maybe it’s because that’s how things have been going with me lately.

At first, I got an average of about four paragraphs written every hour. That’s about fifteen minutes per hour. Lately, it has been around three paragraphs and twenty minutes. Yesterday evening and last night seem to reflect the three and twenty formula. At least it did for Episode Three.

I often have problems starting a Part or an Episode with my Scene Outlines. Hopefully, I won’t have that problem with my scripts, but I probably will. I hope my Scene Outlines will help me solve this problem with my scripts, but I won’t count on that until it happens.

I know what I want to write at the start of a new Part or Episode, but I don’t know how. Sometimes, that can be an easy fix; sometimes, it can’t. It was mixed last night and earlier today. I could fix some quickly, but I couldn’t easily fix some.

The first seven numeric scenes are the hardest because six introduce the six main characters for this Part or Episode. The seventh numeric scene continues the first numeric scene. Starting with the eighth numeric scene, the rest of the six main characters continue their storylines.

I also had a slight problem with some missing scene numbers. Somehow, these missing scene numbers disappeared. I had to go into my spreadsheet to retrieve them. I realized I didn’t need to go that route until after I retrieved them from my spreadsheet.

I could have done it from my Single-Sentence Scene Outline. All I would have needed to do was erase the sentences from these missing scene numbers. It could have been done either way, but both had problems, especially since I forgot to take my mouse to work.

That’s another reason I didn’t write more paragraphs at work last night and this morning. I forgot to take my mouse to work and wrote everything with my laptop mousepad. That took me some extra time I could have devoted to these Scene Outlines.