Process
How a Project Moves From Idea to Finished Screenplay
A consistent seven-stage process, applied to wherever your project currently stands: from a bare concept to an existing draft that needs work.
Discovery
We start with your project as it exists right now: an idea, a draft, a treatment, or a finished script. I ask about genre, audience, goals, timeline, and where you are in the process, so the work that follows is scoped to what you actually need.
Development
For projects starting from concept, this is where premise, characters, structure, and theme get built out before any pages are drafted. For existing scripts, this is diagnostic, understanding what's working and what isn't before touching the page.
Outlining
A structural roadmap appropriate to the project (a treatment, beat sheet, or scene outline) so the shape of the story is agreed before full drafting begins. This step keeps later revisions structural, not a return to square one.
Writing
The screenplay (or requested document) gets drafted using professional screenwriting conventions: structure, scene construction, dialogue, and pacing, built from the roadmap established in outlining.
Revision
A structured revision pass addressing structure, character arcs, pacing, dialogue, and scene-level craft. This is where a solid draft becomes a strong one.
Polishing
A final editorial and formatting pass, covering line-level dialogue, consistency, and full compliance with industry-standard screenplay format, so the document reads cleanly and professionally.
Delivery
The completed screenplay or agreed deliverables are handed off in the formats you need, along with any supporting notes on decisions made along the way.
Where You Start
The process adapts to your starting point
Not every project starts at step one. If you already have a treatment, a draft, or a produced concept, the process picks up from there. See the individual service pages for what's included at each stage.
Have a project in mind?
Tell me about it: genre, format, and where things stand, and we'll figure out the right starting point together.