How To Practice Script Writing

Choose a favorite story:

• Choose your favorite story from a book, comic, movie, etc.
• Identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
• Write down the story based on the essentials of scriptwriting.

Choose a word, verb or adjective, person, animal or place:

• Describe a character that best fits the word you have written.
• Write events in the story that lead to the situation being described by that word
• Write your story around the person or animal or the situation.

Here are some examples of some circumstances for you to base your script upon:

• A hungry beggar child is looking inside an ice-cream parlor seeing children inside enjoy their ice-creams.
• Parents return from work to find their child missing.
• A man jogging in the park finds a bag full of money.
• A boy playing on the beach finds an old lamp.
• The house pet dog destroys the school’s assignment.

Here are some character examples:

• Avery happy looking beggar
• A crying baby
• Unhappy parents
• A badly hurt boy
• A grumpy looking old woman

Story analysis

• Pick up any classic story and try to see if you can formulate an alternative ending to the story. • Identify the beginning, middle, and the end of the story.
• Identify the elements and structure of scriptwriting in the story.
• Try to convert the story into a play.