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>making the characters actually interact with the setting

You can bracket that with the internal POVs of the actors. Dialogue oughtn't be exposition puppetry, you lose narrator transparency: either make it naturalistic (terse-ifiy), or ideal (quiet part out loud).

>plot/story

70 3x5'' notecards, one scene per = a standard film script. You can do this for any story. Events don't have to be serial "and then and then ... and then ..." -- you can play with time, counterpoint, 5shadowing and call backs. If you're stuck, develop your 'fluff'-- the background of characters/context. Beyond a point they will inform on where things ought to head and how. These are things that have to be Thought Through, strategized.

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I’m really good at theme, characters and the academic side of writing fiction but I’m terrible at making the characters actually interact with the…