Since plays do not have narrative (like short stories or novels), does that put more importance on having memorable dialogue and "well-thought-out" stage directions? Choose a novel and see if you can take a memorable scene (perhaps two pages) and write it in theater form. What difficulties did you face? What does this tell you about writing for theater?

Geoffrey is writing a paper investigating friendly-fire incidents in recent us military actions. which paragraph topic would be relevant to his paper and would therefore merit inclusion in his final draft? a) a paragraph criticizing us military actions in the viet nam war b) a paragraph discussing how friendly-fire incidents are investigated c) a paragraph describing what basic boot camp is like for a new army enlistee eliminate d) a paragraph discussing how hard an extended military service can be on a family