22 Ways to Improve Your Screenwriting
technique to improve and use it in one or more scenes.
9. Write the same scene a completely different way.
– Reverse a scene or character
– Increase the stakes
– Change who prevails in the scene
– Use a twist to change the end of the scene
– Put the characters in a worse position
10. Have another writer write one of your scenes in a completely different way.
11. Take a character to an extreme to see what other possibilities are available.
12. Take a line of dialogue or description and rewrite it 10 different ways or more.
13. Stretch yourself: Give your character an unsolvable problem and then solve it.
14. Pick a scene in a movie you like and write it. Once you have completed it, read the writer’s script for that scene and see how he or she wrote it differently.
15. Watch a
