Title: How to Write a Play Script (with Pictures) - wikiHow
Headings: How to Write a Play Script
How to Write a Play Script
Part 1
of 3:
Brainstorming Your Narrative
Part 2
of 3:
Deciding on Your Play’s Structure
Part 3
of 3:
Writing Your Play
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Transition the exposition into rising action. In the rising action, events unfold in a way that makes circumstances more difficult for the characters. The central conflict comes into focus as events raise the audience’s tension higher and higher. This conflict may be with another character (antagonist), with an external condition (war, poverty, separation from a loved one), or with oneself (having to overcome one’s own insecurities, for example). The rising action culminates in the story’s climax: the moment of highest tension, when the conflict comes to a head. {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/thumb\/5\/52\/Write-a-Play-Script-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\/v4-460px-Write-a-Play-Script-Step-5-Version-2.jpg","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/5\/52\/Write-a-Play-Script-Step-5-Version-2.jpg\/aid595347-v4-728px-Write-a-Play-Script-Step-5-Version-2.jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><p>License: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons<\/a><br>\n<\/p><p><br \/>\n<\/p><\/div>"}
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Decide how your conflict will resolve itself.