What are your favorite scenes from movies or plays? What is it about those scenes that really grabs you—is it the interaction between the characters? How about the drama of the conflict? Or maybe there’s a surprise twist in the scene. As you start writing your scene, think about the elements that make your favorite scenes really exciting to you—and how you can incorporate the same excitement into your own scene.
Step 1: Decide the following
What is going to happen in your scene?
What will be the conflict?
Who will be the characters?
Where will your scene take place?
How will you move your plot forward with dialogue?
What kind of stage directions will you need to include?
Step 2: Begin Drafting the Scene
List your characters at the beginning of the scene·
Provide stage directions to introduce the setting (time and place), position and tone of the actors, as well as sound effects and/or lighting. Stage directions provide information about what is happening on stage and appear at the beginning and throughout the scene. Be sure to italicize all stage directions. Begin the conversation between your characters. Give the character’s name followed by a colon, and put only the words that would come out of the character’s mouth after that colon.·