![]() ![]() As the name indicates it is a “rewrite” from “page one” onwards. ![]() Here, that completed draft is stripped down to its conceptual foundation for a complete story rebuild. Where drafting is considered more of an iterative process of refining action lines, transitions, and dialogue, rewriting is when you go back into a finished manuscript and modify parts of it like scenes, pacing or even the structure.Īnd a more extreme version of a rewrite is a page one rewrite. “When a script’s central premise or characters are good but the script is otherwise unusable, a different writer or team of writers is contracted to do an entirely new draft, often referred to as a “page one rewrite”” – Wikipedia But once you finish your draft – and it is the best you can make of it – and you have registered it and even submitted it to an agent, then there is another form of revision required: rewriting. More to the point you will be doing lots of revision, so get used to it. You are going to be doing plenty of drafting.ĭrafts are part of life as a writer. It is more the end of the beginning phase of project development. It is not even the beginning of the end of the process. So, you just typed “Fade Out” on a completed draft of your feature or TV pilot, and you are feeling a mix of pride, relief and just a little bit chuffed.īut is it production or even agent ready? Of course not, as most writers will know completing a draft is not the end of the process. ![]() How Do You Know if You Need a Page One Rewrite?. ![]()
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