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Exploring Theme
11 days ago
by fuswork
I’m a huge fan of theme when it comes to writing. Why? Because it connects us all. Theme connects the writer to his audience; whether they the feel it or not; whether they agree with the writer’s point-of-view or not. Theme exists. So what is it and how can you use it? Below is a quick breakdown. I ...
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Absurdly Wordy
76 days ago
by Lisa Gentile
A new study shows that the struggle to find meaning, particularly in reading Kafka’s absurdist story “The Country Doctor,” enhances certain cognitive abilities. Read the article at http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/this-is-your-brain-on-kafka-1474 My question to you: Will leaving the traditional cha ...
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Character arcs and gender
77 days ago
by Jordan
We were done with our series on character arcs, but then those pesky comments had to butt in again . Murphy, an awesome commenter and thinker from the community at Edittorrent, left a very insightful comment about characters who do and don’t arc last week, which I think could prompt some good discus ...
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Are character arcs necessary?
81 days ago
by Jordan
After all this talk about character arcs, I was browsing around on an interesting screenwriting blog, and found an article kind of a rguing against character arcs. So are character arcs necessary? The answer, of course, is it depends—and it depends on several factors. In plot-driven fiction, for exa ...
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Micro character arcs in sequels
84 days ago
by Jordan
Yesterday, we talked about character arcs within scenes, and we mentioned that there are two different ways to handle them. The first kind uses scene structure to bring about the change. The second kind of change, however, doesn’t rely on scene structure because it doesn’t happen in a scene— it happ ...
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Micro character arcs in scenes
85 days ago
by Jordan
So far, we’ve looked at character arcs on a macro level—characters changing over the course of a story. At the beginning of the series, however, Deb pointed out that characters can also have arcs within a single scene, where they go from one emotion to another, possibly opposite, emotion. Character ...
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Shaping character arcs—the middle
89 days ago
by Jordan
So we’ve figured out what drives our characters, and where they’ll start and end their internal character journeys. So what happens in the middle? Obviously, if our characters start at one extreme (fear, loneliness, naivete) and go to the other (courage, love, wisdom), some pretty extreme things are ...
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