"FADE IN/LIGHTS UP"JUMPING INTO YOUR STORY
FADE IN:
INT. IN FRONT OF YOUR COMPUTER - NOW
SCRIPTED WHIM Be economical. Your first ten pages or less should introduce the genre, protagonist, world, and the situation of your piece. And should do so with an attention-grabbing flair. This exercise will help you eliminate the unessential from your writing.
First day with the Secret Service.
One drink too many at a wedding.
Love at first sight gone sour.
Trapped in the house with a mysterious hostile.
SCRIPTED WHIM Use any of the one sentence prompts above or create your own to develop a one page scene. Begin at your story's most interesting moment. Be sure to establish a genre, introduce a protagonist, a dilemma, and a setting. And remember...conflict, conflict, conflict.FADE OUT:THE END