Scene-Writing Exercises [2013]

Here are 20 scene-writing prompts.

At a fundamental level, screenwriting is scene-writing. Here are prompts for the 1st annual series GITS Scene-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your scene-writing chops.

Add an original scene to a favorite film

A chase scene without cars

A murder scene

A scene featuring two characters sitting on the edge of a bridge

A scene in which someone says goodbye in an airport

A scene in which you introduce a character in a memorable way

A scene involving a medicine cabinet

A scene that begins with this line of scene description: “Smoke stings his/her eyes.”

A scene that ends with a cliffhanger

A scene with a reversal in it

A scene with a one-sided telephone conversation

A scene with a two-sided telephone conversation

A visual-to-visual transition between two scenes

A wedding proposal scene

An action scene with no dialogue

An establishing scene

An exposition scene… that is entertaining

An interrogation scene

An opening scene

An ordinary scene in an extraordinary location

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