Save Template Chicken/Egg Question

Hi SI Team

I have been using EB5 for a number of months now and love it :-)
I am developing a number of standard articles.
EG currently a set of articles called: “All You Need to Make Your Movie for Free 01”
Because I am making these articles for the first time I am not sure how the template should look in advance.
So I make the article and experiment. For example at the moment I am to quite sure how the links will work.
Once I have issues like the links nailed and every thing works as I want it I am read to make a template.

My question. Can I save my now finished article as a template?
Assuming that I can, I guess that I would have to remove all the screen shots, links etc but leave the blocks there for new text links etc.

OR

Do I have to make the template from scratch using the above template as a model?

Does the article become a template or does the template become an article?

I hope that I am being clear. Guess that it is a chicken and egg question!

thanks in advance

Paul