22 Ways to Improve Your Screenwriting
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 movie, stopping it at the end of each scene. Write down what happened in the scene, how the characters changed, what was the in and out points, and what was the most interesting part