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10 ways to make your script sizzle |
- Keep the mystery: Dive straight into your story without trying to explain it first. It'll help you keep the audience intrigued from the very beginning.
- Keep it tight: Every bit that the audience sees must be important to the overall play. You've only got ten minutes, so leave out any unnecessary moments.
- Keep your eye on the ball: Be strong in your writing by never loosing sight of what the play is about.
- Keep your characters believable: Real people are extreme in certain ways and lacking in others. Just like in real life, their actions should not be exactly equal to their words. Also, humanize you characters by giving them dreams (and perhaps even taking them away)
- Don't use words when you don't need to: Actions say more than words.
- Every great play has a tipping point: Once your main actor(s) cross this point they can never turn back.
- Be brutal: Life is harsh! Your audience will feel for your characters if they suffer along with them before their possible triumphs.
- Keep it larger than life: Your characters must go through dramatic changes on their journey. Remember. It's a ten minute play, not everyday life.
- Identify and reinforce the themes within the script: This will keep the audience engaged and help them relate to it better.
- End with a bang!: Now that you've got the audience hooked and baited, don't leave them hanging. Blow them away! Remember to tie off all the loose ends before the end.
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