Categories Revised

By dan from why.movie | July 22, 2025

Here's the legacy categories, even after revising in 2019 they were STILL too complicated and so I eventually stopped using them, they didn't persist.

  • 1.0 story
    • 1.1 theory
    • 1.2 world building
      • exposition
      • rationales
      • themes
    • 1.3 script
      • characters
      • props
      • scenes
    • 1.4 feedback / tests
  • 2.0 production
    • 2.1 approach / workflow
    • 2.2 cast and crew
    • 2.3 makery design
    • 2.4 gear / tools
    • 2.5 capture
    • 2.6 editorial / vfx / mix
  • 3.0 infrastructure
    • 3.1 protocols
    • 3.2 legal
    • 3.3 financial
    • 3.4 promotion
    • 3.5 festivals
    • 3.6 distribution
  • 4.0 moring me
    • 4.1 clarity
    • 4.2 epiphany
    • 4.3 learning curve
    • 4.4 motivation
    • 4.5 process

Why have categories at all? 1) My current conception feels elegant and easy. 2) Worth articulating for myself. 3) Does the use of categories improve my access to content for writing the novella? Not sure. The novella is a comprehensive consolidation and gentle process of coherence, bringing in everything that ever felt excellent.

1.0 Writing

2.0 Making

3.0 Audience

4.0 Me