Working on scripts where characters re-tell a story or memory can be incredibly challenging. Often these longer passages are full of emotional turmoil - our characters rant, rave, list complaints or recount an event from the past. Working on these passages require two essential steps. We need to personalize each moment in the memory/story and we need to activate the story so that it can affect change the present moment.

Rather than diving head first into the ‘how can I get improve’ rabbit hole, what if… we just stayed here for a moment longer and sat with it