A Writer's Guide to Acting: Discovering What the Scene is Really About

The last component you will learn about in this series on creating a character is how to go about finding out what is really going on in the scene. In other words, what is the scene really about? What is really happening that is important to my character? You may be asking yourself, isn't that the same thing as the conflict? Not really. Conflict is about determining who is preventing you from getting what you want. And sometimes that person is yourself. What is really happening in the scene sometimes has nothing to do with the conflict. You must find out how the scene changes the story, or if doesn't change the story, why it doesn't change the story and how the fact that it doesn't change the story changes you. It may seem confusing now, but it will become clearer the more you practice.