You have finished your entire no budget screenplay or at least an act of it and you are at a point where you wish to do some editing. I would like you to review every single scene and list what you believe to be the 5 worst scene. These scene will feel forced or they just do not seem to connect well with the joining scenes or maybe they are much too long or too short. For what ever reason they do not seem to work.
Isolate the absolute worst of them and cut it.
I said cut it.
Do not edit it or try to redo it or move it around. Just take this scene and if you have a paper copy tear it out. If it is on the computer delete it from the script. Yes I really know that this scene has its place in your screenplay. It is really necessary and conveys an important bit of information or character development.
Here is my response to that heart felt and sincere argument.
CUT IT.
It is better to get rid of this really bad scene rather than have it stinking up all the scenes around it. I do not care if this scene tells who did it or where the body is buried or who stole that piece of cake or if Jessica Alba is nude in it, cut it.
“Did I really just say that last thing?”
Okay keep the Jessica Alba scene and cut the rest.
I am just trying to make your screenplay stronger and after you cut and edited you will find that it is stronger. After you cut that worst scene and cut as much as possible of the second scene, edit down the third worst scene and rewrite the forth and fifth worst scenes. Make your script better and better. It will be painful to do this, but you know what the military say about pain.
Pain is just weakness leaving the body and in this case pain is just the weakest elements leaving your script.
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