Scene-Writing Exercises [2015]

Here are 18 scene-writing prompts.

At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Here are prompts for the 3rd annual series GITS Scene-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your scene-writing chops.

A conversation between a white-collar and blue-collar worker

A post-sex scene

A scene at a sporting event

A scene in a confessional where the priest makes a confession

A scene inspired by this photograph

A scene in which characters whisper

A scene starting or ending with a hand holding a knife

A scene that involves texting

A scene using flashback and voice-over narration

A scene using something you hear in conversation today

A scene with just one word of dialogue

Adult answering a child’s questions

An accusation

An adulterer out for a meal with his/her spouse sees his/her lover enter the restaurant

En route to the hospital to have a baby

Someone has had too much to drink at a wedding reception when THIS happens

Someone is brought to tears

Scene-Writing Exercises (2013)
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