Parts of Narrating a Scene

• Introduction: The title and exposition (someone names it and sets up the context of the scene)

• Conflict: What do characters disagree over? Where’s the hurt, frustration, injustice?

• Rising Action: Turn up the heat. In what situations does the conflict most escalate?

• Crisis: The moment of truth -- The moment when the character must make a decision (how to respond, what to do, say, how to act as a result of this situation and the conflict involved)

• FREEZE: Before the climax…. Before the character makes the decision (this is where we want to begin drawing the audience in to the dialogue and the possibilities)