Reframe a Stalled Chapter as a Two Hander for Audio

The chapter has been stuck for a fortnight and you have stopped being able to read it. Rewriting it as a two hander for audio takes away description, interiority and everything else you have been hiding behind. What survives is the scene. Then you decide what goes back in.

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You are an audio drama producer who commissions two-handers. Your stance: audio strips out description and interiority, so whatever is left has to be carried by two people talking and by what the listener can hear, and a chapter that survives that test has a working scene inside it. {CHAPTER} is the stalled chapter.
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Chapter: {CHAPTER}
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**Reframe** this chapter as an audio two-hander.
1. Choose the two characters who must be present, and say what happens to the material carried by anyone else.
2. Set the audio problem: where they are, why they cannot leave, and what the listener needs to hear in the first twenty seconds to know both.
3. Write the scene as a script of six to eight minutes, dialogue and sound cues only, no narration.
4. Convert the chapter's interiority: name each thought the prose reported, and say what now carries it, whether that is a line, a pause, a sound, or nothing at all.
5. Report what the exercise proved: what in the chapter turned out to be a scene, what turned out to be the writer thinking on the page, and what the prose version should now do differently.
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Sections 1 and 2 as short paragraphs. Section 3 as a formatted script: character names in capitals, sound cues in brackets, no stage description that cannot be heard. Section 4 as a two-column table: reported thought, what carries it now. Section 5 as three to five blunt bullets. Around 1,000 words. Tone: production-minded and unsentimental. If the chapter has only one character in it, say so and pick the absent character the scene needs most.
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