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Pages A finished scene, written from the plan you approved.

14.

INT. SCROOGE’S CHAMBERS - BEDROOM - NIGHT

A low fire. A saucepan of gruel on the hob. EBENEZER SCROOGE (60s), in dressing gown and nightcap, sits close to the grate, spoon halfway to his mouth.

Far below, something heavy drags across the cellar floor. Then up the stairs. Then straight toward his door.

The door stays shut. JACOB MARLEY (60s, dead seven years) comes through it, a bandage tied round his jaw.

A long chain winds about his middle: cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and purses wrought in steel.

SCROOGE

You’re fettered. Tell me why.

MARLEY

I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link.

Scrooge looks down at his own waist. Nothing there. He pats the dressing gown anyway.

Scene plan Before a word is written, the scene’s purpose is agreed. By you.

Scene plan

The chain he forged

Enters: Scrooge saw Marley’s face in his door knocker an hour ago and told himself it was nothing.
Moves: Marley comes through the locked door. Scrooge argues with his own eyes.
Pressure peaks: Marley shows him the chain, and Scrooge checks his own waist for one.
Leaves: Scrooge stops arguing. His own chain is longer, and still growing.

Approved by you, revision 3

Characters What the story knows about them, and what is still only a possibility.

Ebenezer Scrooge

Characters

Wants: To be left alone with his money.
Fears: Needing anyone.
Contradiction: Calls the dead humbug. Never painted Marley’s name off the door.

He has been waiting seven years for Marley to come back.

A possibility

Story Space Where it began: your own words, kept with the night you said them.

Your words, 2 December, 6.15 pm

“Seven years and he never painted Marley’s name off the sign. What if part of him has been waiting for Jacob to come back? He’s frightened tonight, sure. But he’s glad of the company.”

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The knocker becomes Marley’s face.

What does Scrooge do?He says “Pooh, pooh” and goes in.A possibilityHe turns and spends the night at an inn.A possibilityHe speaks to it.A possibility

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First draftNovember 2026