Screenwriting 101: Allison Buckmelter

“Just go ahead and start a first draft. That was our big thing before, until the last few years. We wouldn’t want to start a first draft until we had thought everything out and the idea was perfectly cemented in our heads. Then we’d imagine a nice long weekend set aside to do it when there weren’t a lot of other things going on in our lives. But it’s never going to be that perfect time, and you’re never going to have all the answers for the story. Even if it’s a busy weekend, and you only have forty-five minutes during your lunch hour or something, just try scribbling out a scene and keep doing that every day. Before you know it, you’ll have a first draft.”

— Allison Buckmelter

From Go Into The Story interview, April 2019

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