Writing a Treatment

Getting down to the nitty-gritty of the Aaron (35) Landscaper story.

Treatments are crucial in the writing process. Beat boards and outlines are great, but something happens when you actually get to sit down and feel the story flow through you. Especially when it’s prose and you’re not so worried about formatting.

I personally like to create a separate document for my treatments so I can separate myself from the other work I’ve done and focus solely on feeling the story. Almost like writing a draft of a book.

Now, this is still in rough draft form, but we are allowed to get as flowery as we want. It’s also absolutely acceptable to be bland as all hell here. This is only for you. This isn’t one of the “treatments” you’d send as promotional material or in a pitch deck or anything. This is a writing aid.