How to keep up the action during the whole script?

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   Camill@posted 14 years ago

   How to keep up the action during the whole script?
   
   The script needs to flow from start to finish- how do you come up with a different/ more exciting action to make the story holding on to it's readers?

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   Jarnposted 13 years ago

   The term you're looking for is "gripping," not "holding on." As for exciting, if the story's any good, it should lend itself to high action and high intensity scenes. If it involves a bunch of people sitting around a table or coffee shop, either throw it out, turn it into a cable TV script, or make it a Jane Austen rip off. Otherwise, just keep throwing one attack after another at the hero. Keep him on the back foot and reeling until all the pieces fit together and he figures out what he needs to do to take down the bad guy and resolve the ending.

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