/lit/ - Literature

Has anyone been working on a screenplay?

>>16940332
That may or may not be an insult, I can't tell.

>>16940651
Yes and yes. Screenplays are, by necessity, *much* more structured than novels. In a novel you're free to do a certain level of wandering around your story. But film is a different medium. Anything that doesn't move the story forward in a film must be left out.
For most screenwriters the process is usually something like
>Think of a premise
>Formulate it into a logline
>Do a lot of prewriting about the characters, settings, conflicts, etc
>Write out the story as a 4-5 page treatment
>Use the treatment to mock up ~70 3x5 cards, each of which represents a scene
>Use the cards to write the actual screenplay
I don't know how much prewriting you do, but it's generally said that screenplays require a great deal more prewriting than novels. Everything has to be very finely manicured.

>>16941397
Sadly it requires just as much networking and people skills as publishing traditional prose. There are screenwriting competitions, summits, hell, you could even take the boomer route and start cold-calling agent's assistants.
If you ever get traditionally published, or already are, your agent or publishing house might even have some studio people they can talk to.