Filling It All In…
I’ve spent the last few days just sitting with my play. It was only last night that I heard a few small snippets of dialogue.
Once I sat to type today, I realized that though the information the character was sharing was important, it wasn’t the whole picture. The audience already knows the information, and so it’s nothing new for them. But it is news for the other character in the scene/relationship.
It is her reaction that makes this scene, and helps move the story and character arcs to a new place. Knowing and understanding this helped me take the sketch of the scene I was hearing in those few lines of dialogue to form a more complete and satisfying picture. And before I knew it, I had a full scene.
Sometimes the best way of getting from point a to point b involves more than just a straight line.
–Sue
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