Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film
Editorial Reviews
Script Magazine, September, 2004
Advanced Writing stands among the most important contributions to the screenwriter's bookshelf in the past decade.
Book Description
Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as originality, credibility, contrivance, crudeness, monotony, repetition. Story appeal, story impact. Threat, hope, need to know, tension and pace. Character realization, character identification, character appeal, repellant characters, character change, character and dynamics, a group as a character. The reality of relationships, the identity of relationships, the appeal of relationships, relationships and dynamics. Architecture, design, types of structure, sequential structuring, story steps, the set-up, openings, endings. Embodiment, scene appeal, scene impact. Micro-dynamics. Point of view. Voice. Showing, telling and doing. Setting. Titles. Comedy.
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Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film
Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film,Wells Earl Draughon,iUniverse,059528311X,Composition & Creative Writing - Fiction,Film & Video - Screenwriting,General,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Screenplays
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