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The document provides tips for writing scripts, including taking inspiration from music, images, or news stories; focusing on your strengths rather than requiring extensive research; avoiding cliches by altering aspects of characters; showing rather than telling through characters' actions; and writing about topics you are familiar with from work, family, or personal experiences. It also mentions enrolling in an online creative writing course to learn more about content writing and receive a certification.
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Tips to write scripts
- 1. Tips for writing scripts
- 2. 1. Inspiration Tune in to a bit of music, placed an irregular name into an internet searcher and see what pictures come up. Pick a story from The Metro, and utilize these as beginning stages for a character, a scene, a story. Furthermore, let your imagination go.
- 3. 2. Strengths In the event that you're normally clever – bring that into your work. On the off chance that you're not a fanatic of exploration, at that point don't begin with something that requires 10 years in the British Library.
- 4. 3. No cliché Stressed you're composing a clichéd character? Characters we may have seen previously? At that point switch a component of that character around. Change their sex, age, class, occupation. This can frequently turn a cliché on its head and lead us to something fascinating.
- 5. 4. Show don’t tell Whatever a character needs or feels, it's in every case all the more fascinating to gain proficiency with this through their activities, rather than dialogue.
- 6. 5. Write what you know Work. Family. Youth. Or on the other hand things that get you energized. Things that make you so frantic you need to toss blocks. Compose the content instead.
- 7. More information To learn more about content writing enroll in creative writing online course offered by Henryharvin, taught by industry experts it is consider to be the best course in India. Upon completion a certification is provided which would act as an asset in your CV.
- 8. Sources - 1. http://www.mediafire.com/file/bfod3p7td5ahnu1/tips+to+write+sc ripts.pptx/file 2. https://issuu.com/sameepgupta/docs/tips_20to_20write_20scripts .pptx