Unit 4 of 6
The page itself
Write description that directs the eye and scenes that end early.
0/4 lessons complete 81 min
What you walk out with
Your pages read fast. A professional reader sees competence in the first thirty seconds, which is all the credit you get.
THE LESSONS
Lesson 1 · 6 min · 2 exercises
Action lines that direct the reader's eye
Description is dense, novelistic, or tells us what cannot be filmed.
Lesson 2 · 25 min · 2 exercises
Scene economy: enter late, leave early
Scenes take a page to start, or end after the point has been made.
Lesson 3 · 30 min · 2 exercises
Formatting as competence
The pages look amateur before a single line has been judged.
Lesson 4 · 20 min · 2 exercises
The first ten pages
Readers do not commit early, and the story question arrives too late.
The assignment
Rewrite your first ten pages to the standard in this unit, then read them out loud with a timer running.