Given Circumstances
● Who- relationship between your character and all the other
characters important in the scene (whether physically present or not;
a general and a specific relationship with each person)
● Where- two main aspects- physical environment and social
environment.
● When- facts plus the implications of manners, values, beliefs, etc
● What- start with the antecedent (or “pre”) action: things that
happened in the past that affect the present situation and then move
into the main event of the scene.