I alternate between index cards and whiteboards for mapping out stories. For proofreading, a colored felt-tip pen is key. It’s cheap it writes consistently I never worry about losing one. My preferred pen is the black Pilot G2 (.38 size). I’ve been using some generic Staples brand. When writing by hand, I like a white, lined, letter-sized writing pad with a very stiff back. I won’t paste the scenes together until I’m more than halfway through a script. I find I can generally get 40 decent pages out of a good barricading session. There are lots of restaurants, and no one looks at you strangely for being alone.
If you’re not drinking or gambling, Las Vegas is a surprisingly good city for writing: when you get stir crazy, you can walk somewhere new. I could sit in the exact spot Lovecraft wrote his stories. If I’m writing something specific to a place, I’ll go there. I used to fax pages, but on this last trip I just photographed the pages with my iPad and uploaded them to a shared folder in Dropbox. At the start, it’s crucial to generate a critical mass of pages.Įvery morning, I send what I’ve written to my assistant to type up. Writing by hand keeps me from editing and second-guessing. I hand-write pages, trying to plow through as much as possible my record is 21 pages in a day. I find that barricading myself in a new hotel in a new city helps me break the back of a story. When I start a new screenplay, I generally go away for a few days. Page counts tend to be a better measure of effort than time spent in front of the computer. When I’m really writing - that is, buckling down on a specific draft of a specific movie - I try to write five pages a day. (Beyond that speed, it’s genuine cardio and I can only listen to podcasts and such.) I find I can think coherently up to about 3.2 miles per hour. I MacGyvered an old film festival lanyard to hold my iPad 2, and use an Apple bluetooth keyboard. to 6 p.m., but I wander in and out of the house pretty freely.įor the past six months, I’ve been doing most of my “morning work” - reading and blog stuff, such as writing this post - while walking on the treadmill. Until she was four, my daughter didn’t realize that I was approximately 100 feet away when I went “off to work.” She finally caught on, but we’ve been able to set pretty firm guidelines about when she is and isn’t allowed to interrupt me. I work in an office built over my garage. In the weeks ahead, I’ll be asking other screenwriters to share their routines. So, in the spirit of The Setup, I thought I’d give a breakdown of my daily work habits. Several readers mentioned that it was the first time they had ever heard of it, and wondered what other tools I was using. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I use Evernote as an all-purpose notebook for storing random ideas.
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