out of sequence
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.