Advanced Writing: Fiction and Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780595657605)

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.

Author: Wells Earl Draughon
ISBN-10: 0595657605
ISBN-13: 9780595657605
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2003
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d