// WORKSHEET · LESSON 03 OF 07

Scene Audit: Write the Wants

One pass per scene. If you cannot fill this in cleanly, the scene is not earning its place.

NOTHING FILLED IN YET

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01THE SCENE

Run this worksheet once per scene. Print a copy for each.

Slugline, number, or whatever you call it.

New angle, not new topic. If it repeats a beat you already hit, cut it or combine it.

02CHARACTER A

One concrete sentence. Not a life goal. Something they could get before the scene ends.

To convince. To escape. To humiliate. To stall. An actor should be able to play it.

03CHARACTER B — THE REVERSE ANGLE

Most flat scenes are flat because nobody asked what the other person wanted.

One concrete sentence.

04THE COLLISION

If everyone wants the same thing, there is no friction. Go find the opposition.

If characters are announcing their feelings or goals, rewrite it physically.

Necessary but flat scenes get saved by something hidden in the physical action.

05VERDICT

Built from the Playbook’s WANT Framework and Scene Checklist, plus Character Wants and Desires, Character Intentions and Obstacles, and The Verb Test from the Scribble Worksheets library.

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