Writing Scripts When You Can: The "any time" plan

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Your idea is a good one. I know, however, that I (for one) have trouble with continuity when I try to write in short snippets of time. I usually have trouble with both establishing and maintaining continuity in my writing when I don’t have a more extended period to think about what it is I am doing.

Perhaps the most significant exception to this trend (for me) is dialogue. Our speech is frequently marked by a lack of continuity, and that characteristic spontaneity is refreshingly exploitable in short bursts of writing time. Short writing periods actually help me with dialogue, an area I have been historically weaker in than other kinds of text.

Dan Cooper
CE, Vintage and Classic Cars

-- posted by dancooper