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Click here to see the profile of this user 		tactics - 2007/04/03 15:49 Hi, I am in a show right now and I actually haven't acted since high school...I'm trying to find suitable objectives and the like, and would like to make specific tactic choices, but I am having trouble getting out of the mental relam...does anyone have any good action verbs or know of a list on the internet that is good? All the lists that I have found all have mental verbs on them.
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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:tactics - 2007/04/04 10:41 Ooh, we just did this at school today! Here are some strong ones we came up with:

Demanding, imploring, insulting, complimenting, pitying, employing, dismissing... and a few more I can't remember.

I don't know if you can find it on the internet, but there's this list called "The Essential Actions List" and it has a whole long list of things like "Trying to get someone off my back" and "getting someone on my side". Auditioning for: Brigadoon, theatre season, American Music Theatre, Into the Woods, Sound of Music, and AMDA.

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Click here to see the profile of this user 		Re:tactics - 2007/04/05 21:22 Wow, okay now my acting teacher would LOVE you.

Okay a tactic I find is using verbs that aren't concepts, they are real actions. Like to compliment is a concept. What does one do when they compliment someone? They can coddle them, raise them, impower, and they list goes one. The main goal is to impact another, and concepts are just what you'd like. Or that's at least how I see it.

Also, it helps to have really strong words to invoke emotion (and mental related verbs aren't always bad, psychology could affect the physicality). So for example the action "to clean" might not be strong enough, but "exterminate filth" may work better.

Gah, somewhere my Acting teacher is marking an F in his grade book for that...lol
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