British Comedy Guide

Writing without words

I'm writing a sketch that doesn't have any speech in it, which i've never done before. Would this be written just as an extension of the first paragraph in a normal script i.e. when you introducuce the character(s) etc, do you just carry on writing until the end? I can't think of another way the you'd do it, but it just feels a bit weird.

Hi GJ

Yeah, leave a line and keep writing the description of what's happening. Keep it concise though, don't start all these novel-ly type of descriptions unless they're *vital* to the plot.

Not to big up my own work (ahem) but there's a description of stuff happening in something I submitted earlier:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/543

Hopefully this is the sort of thing you mean

Hope this helps

Dan

Cheers Dan. Mine won't have any speech in it at all, so slightly different, but I see what your saying. I'll write it and post it to see what you think.

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