Unit 4 · Chapter 21 · 9 min
Act-outs and character
Stop reporting the scene. Become it for four seconds and let the room watch.
'And then he got really defensive' is a report. Doing the guy — the shoulders, the voice, the exact pause before he says 'I'm not being defensive' — is an act-out. Same information, twice the laugh, because the audience is now watching instead of listening.
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