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SoCreate Screenwriting Software’s Weekly Writing Challenge – Prompt 18

Participating in SoCreate's Weekly Creative Exercises can be a fantastic strategy to kickstart your creativity and overcome writer's block in a short span of time.

This week's exercise transports you to a chilly evening outside Robin's Restaurant. The character, Sofia, is waiting impatiently, feeling stood up. How does she handle the situation when she decides to confront the person she's waiting for over the phone?

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Weekly Writing Challenge

Writing Challenge

  • Location: EXT – Robin’s Restaurant – Night

  • Characters: Sofia

  • Scene Description: Sofia (50s) clutches her coat, teeth chattering, and pulls her phone out, irritated. Her empty table sits right behind her, inside the window that’s partially covered in frost.

  • Prompt: Write a one-sided phone conversation between Sofia and the person she’s calling. She feels like she’s been stood up, and she’s going to give this person a piece of her mind. But while she’s on the phone, the waiter is trying desperately to get her attention from the other side of the window. How does the phone conversation ensue?

Extra Credit: Choose one line of dialogue in your story, and change the Dialogue Type. For example, a character might deliver a line of dialogue off camera, as voiceover, or a as a text message. While you're focused within the editor on a Dialogue Stream item, you can point out Dialogue Type by clicking on the icon that looks like a person speaking. From here, choose from multiple options that give more detail about how the character is meant to deliver the dialogue. Upon previewing your story in the traditional screenplay format, this notation will appear to the right of the character's name in parentheses, just as you'd expect it to in an industry-standard script. Give it a try!

Take on the Weekly Challenge

With SoCreate, you can dive into writing immediately without worrying about formatting, and let your imagination run wild with character and location visualization tools. Want to see your story in the traditional, standard script format? Simply click export/print, and SoCreate does all the formatting work for you.

You can also track all your past creative endeavors from your SoCreate dashboard and build upon previous prompts when inspiration hits. With SoCreate, all your work is conveniently located in one place.

Weekly creative writing exercises are a superb way to sharpen your writing skills and develop your unique voice in a short amount of time. They can inspire you to explore new genres and take on a variety of writing projects.

Don't miss this opportunity to challenge yourself and unleash your creativity! Stay tuned each week for a new exercise and visit SoCreate's story idea resources for more writing inspiration.

Courtney Meznarich, Director of Community Outreach
Courtney Meznarich Director of Community Outreach
@courtonthecoast

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