She Raged, She Blustered

My prose tends to contain a lot of implied action. When it works this is a good thing since it saves me having to waste words, while still catering to the lowest common denominator. Does that sound arrogant? Whatever. It's something I'm working on. But it's different in screenwriting. I want my script to describe exactly what is happening in a given scene. This tends to result in a hell of a lot of sentences that begin with "He curled", "she did", "he shot", one after another. It feels like I'm reeling off a shopping list of actions. It feels artificial. It feels as if it lacks drama. And we all know I like my drama.

There's also the whole word count issue. I mean script is meant to be minimal. It's meant to convey the action in a concise and efficient manner. I know prose is meant to do this too, but with script you're crystalising. I wonder if this is an intermediate stage. I mean I'm learning another form of writing, pretty much from scratch. Perhaps at some future point my scripts will grow from bulleted lists to nicely flowing scenes. We shall see.

I think it's time to dig out some examples and see how the experts do it. All I can do is observe and practise.