{"id":237,"date":"2012-11-29T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/11\/29\/update-on-nanowrimo-28-a-novel-scriptment\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T02:49:00","slug":"update-on-nanowrimo-28-a-novel-scriptment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/11\/29\/update-on-nanowrimo-28-a-novel-scriptment\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on #NaNoWriMo 28: A Novel Scriptment"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvovermind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Director_Youssef_Chahin_resize1.jpg\" width=\"468\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A screenplay goes through many stages, from storyboard to treatment to draft script to shooting script. Not all these terms are useful for novel writers. (Obviously a &#8220;shooting script&#8221; is not relevant, although it has its equivalent perhaps in the &#8220;gallies.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I think some screenwriting terms and traditions are useful for novelists&#8230; the storyboard and the beat sheet, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Another useful term is scriptment. A scriptment is a halfway between a treatment (a summary without dialogue) and a full script draft.<\/p>\n<p>What would a novel scriptment be? It would be half-way between an Outline and a Draft.<\/p>\n<p>I like this term because to me &#8220;draft&#8221; implies a novel that is complete but inelegant. It needs editing and polishing, maybe even cutting scenes or adding or moving scenes, but it&#8217;s a readable novel. An outline is just a skeleton. But if you have your novel blocked out scene by scene, with a lot of the dialogue included, in the correct tense and PoV, this is the novel equivalent of a scriptment.<\/p>\n<p>If you know how your scriptment unpacks into full draft, you can estimate the correct word count for your novel. For instance, my scriptment for October Knight is now finished. It&#8217;s about 30,000 words of scriptment, with some of that unpacked into draft already, coming to about 40,000 words right.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I haven&#8217;t &#8220;won&#8221; NaNoWriMo officially (although if I include my blog posts and my NaNoWriMo Tips, I have written comfortably over 50,000 words this month&#8230;) but what I do have is an extremely useful and solid foundation for a novel&#8230;one that will require far less time in revision than previous drafts I&#8217;ve done before I knew how to extensively plan my novels before I wrote them.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A screenplay goes through many stages, from storyboard to treatment to draft script to shooting script. Not all these terms are useful for novel writers. (Obviously a &#8220;shooting script&#8221; is not relevant, although it has its equivalent perhaps in the &#8220;gallies.&#8221;) I think some screenwriting terms and traditions are useful for novelists&#8230; the storyboard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}