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Practice Action
Try this! Your Task: Grab a novel. Flip to a random page. For context, read one page before and after your randomly selected page. Pluck the main character you’ve just read about from this novel. Turn on your TV. What location do you see? What’s happening? Turn off your TV. Now, write an action scene with your character from the novel in the location from the TV. Address these two questions: How did they get here? What happens next!

Examining Action
How does action grab us? Your Task: Watch a movie - any movie. Now, look back at your movie watching experience. Answer these questions: When did you feel the first sense of excitement (and starting to get drawn in)? What captivated you? What actions did you take when responding to the movie (did you move forward in your seat?)? Now, describe in detail what happened when you first got pulled into the movie. Try to write this as an action sequence.

Examining Structure
Taking a look at others’ work can help us get an understanding of the process of structuring a screenplay. Your Task: Find a movie whose screenplay is also readily available. Get them both. Now, watch the movie. Take a series of (at least 3) scenes and transcribe them using screenplay format. Do this without looking at the screenplay first. Now, compare your transcription to the original screenplay and notice what’s different. Finally, do a 10-minute freewrite on what you’ve learned.