Finding Good Scenes for Prepared Reads

What works:

1. A scene with an arc, with a beginning, middle and end.
2. A balance in dialogue
3. A character that is not only reacting but also actively involved in the scene (ie. interrogation scenes are fine, but don't pick one where all they are doing is reacting, pick one where they have an active objective in the scene ie. hiding something, trying to manipulate someone etc)
4. A nice opening beat, and a good button at the end
5. Levels
6. A clear relationship

What doesn't work:

1. "overly charactery" it runs the risk of putting you in a very very sharp box, it should highlight a side of you, and capture some of your essence, where you can bring yourself not allow the CD to box you in
2. multiple people in the scene. keep it simple.
3. any hospital scene (it's fine if you're just sitting in a bed, or they draw blood, but not something that involves the words "stat" etc.)
4. where the reader starts and establishes the pace of the scene, unless you trust your reader you could be setting yourself up for failure. you should be the active character in the scene.
5. an interrogation scene that is designed to further the arc of the series regulars not you. because then you're just exposition.