“I did a million drafts. And then I did the thing everybody does—I read Syd Field and I used my index cards.”
Producer/writer/actress Tina Fey
The note card/index card method of plotting out your story has been covered a couple of times on this blog in the posts Screenwriting Via Index Cards and Dustin Lance Black Screenwriting Tutorial(with video), but the “brilliant simplicity” of the technique is worth re-visiting from time to time. Today, screenwriter and instructor John Jarrell puts his spin on using notecards which he says Syd Field made mainstream popular with the 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.
Jarrell deviates from Field in that he prefers 4″X6″ cards rather than the 3″X5″ cards Field wrote about. (More writing real estate.) Jarrell says notecards are the first thing students dive into in his workshops. He goes into more detail in his book, but here’s a…
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