Colby Day | writer director

Do this before you write a single word of your screenplay. Write down six scenes you genuinely want to see in your movie. Not the scenes that should be there structurally — the scenes you actually want to see. Specific moments. Specific images. Things that excite you. They don’t have to connect. They don’t have to be important plot beats. They just have to be real. Then circle the three you’d most want to write. Here’s what you’ll find: those three scenes almost always have something in common. A character. A relationship. A tone. Something you didn’t consciously plan. That link is what your movie is actually about. Now write those three scenes — before the outline, before the structure — and the outline you build afterward will be a completely different document. Because it’ll be built around something real. And if you found this method to be fun, I made a worksheet that will walk you through my entire idea -> outline process. Just $27 and available at the link in my bio. #screenwriting #filmmaking #screenwriter #writingtips #writingprompts