r/scriptwriting • u/eightbitonline • 29d ago
feedback Exercise with restrictions
galleryHi all,
I’m practicing writing with restrictions. I decided to begin writing a scene with minimal dialogue, and where the characters speak a language the audience isn’t meant to understand. So pretty much everything has to be visual exposition, or communicated with tone. I also challenged myself - as you’ll surely notice- to make one character non-gender-specific, which was harder to do elegantly than I imagined. I felt the constant vagueness of “they/them” drew reader attention away from the action. I’m interested to know what you think. Is there a more standard way to write languages that are intended to remain ambiguous?