That wasn't helpful and no, I didn't know what you meant. I've never heard anyone use the term "story based story". I think you are hinting at plot driven stories.
A draft isn't planning, that's doing. Of course he had a first draft. Every story that has ever existed has a first draft. That's not what is meant by planning as opposed to pantsing. If that were true, then there would be no such thing as making a story up on the fly.
Hard disagree about King's writing.
Direction doesn't equate to planning.
Dr. Strangelove is terrible. It confuses making a point with telling a story.
And the nature of TV is completely different from film. Stop comparing the two. Films by and large tell a self contained limited story. TV by its nature is meant to sustain for much longer. As such, it can't afford to plan in excessive detail.
Mad Swami wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:56 pm
Mystery Authors don't release the first chapter of their book without having already planned who the killer/culprit is. Again they go through drafts. No tv series don't have every episode mapped out. However they plan what they want to do in an episode. They talk and again, draft it out.
Again, all wrong. A number of them don't actually plan how the culprit is from the start. They figure it out as they go then smooth it over in rewrites to make sure it makes sense. This can easily be researched. And drafts aren't planning, they are writing. Drafts aren't planning.
However, just because plans change doesn't mean there were no plans.
And it wasn't the plan that made it good. It was the ability to pivot. Writers don't need plans, they just need time. That's the biggest value in an outline, it saves time. It can definitely help to focus, but it's biggest value is saving time.
I used to think that planned stories are always better, because with stuff like foreshadowing twists,
A lot of foreshadowing isn't the result of intentional plants as much as writers paying attention to their own continuity.
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