Curtain

In a good scene something has to happen. There must be a before and after. If we leave a scene the way we entered it, then nothing happened and the audience might loose interest.

Check your scene has a beginning, middle and end and that you took the issue at stake to its conclusion. To make sure you have done so, say “curtain” as if you were at the theater. If you feel the curtain can fall on a scene without the audience thinking it’s due to a technical problem, then you have probably come to the end of what had to happen at that moment.

At the theater, when the curtain rises again (the following scene) we can be anywhere and at any other moment. This is also possible in a film.