Maybe I’m overthinking / overrationalizing, but to me a screenplay is a set of instructions for what happens at a given time step. “After A be will happen” A

Maybe I’m overthinking / overrationalizing, but to me a screenplay is a set of instructions for what happens at a given time step. “After A be will happen” A novel is typically seen as a recollection of events that has been gathered after the fact, typically by an all knowing narrator or the main character. “After A happened, B happened”.