the second draft - rewriting a screenplay

Two tips:

In the second draft you will ADD not subtract scenes.  You will be using your editing-right brained and this is the draft to let that speak.

 Tip two is to let the story sit for six months or until you forget most of it.

It is in the THIRD draft that you begin to cut, restructure scenes and shape the story.  For it is only until after you have let both sides speak that you can synthesize their voices into a story.

How many times have you sat down to rewrite that second draft with scissors and erasers and delete keys at the ready?   And how many times have you failed to produce a better draft?

Its commercialism and desperation and downright disrespect that leads you to thrust the throttle into a second draft rewrite.  Ultimately you end up riding on an airplane of tragedy that breaks up in mid air leaving you and yours, a blood exploded corpse on the asphalt roof of some suburban dry-hopped, hand job who can't stand up to the middle school kids on his block when they flick him off and smash his pumpkins.

So don't be that kind of shitty human writer, you little prick.

Build and develop your script in the second draft and don't cry over page counts yet.