M.N.Raia‭

Of course developing a character is quite an intimate process. But still, like a story, you can in fact have some tools that give you some sort of axiomatic path on "how-to". There is a TV writer ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Amadeus‭

A personal point of view on the necessity of a new culture in fiction "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away", "Pandora", "Dune", "Middle Earth". All quite different worlds compared to ours, b...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mark Baker‭

My main source of research about storytelling/screenwriting/how-to-write-a-book manual is [1]. But, the definition of "beat" given by [1] maybe can causing me some confusion. In [1] we have a def...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't possible at all. Then as a writer you can cr...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Suppose then you have an story in your mind. Then, to write down this finite series of events, you have to translate your imagination into the paper. This process isn't trivial, of course and plot ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mark Baker‭

Following the answer of @Cyn and my comment (on Doubt about a particular point of view on how to do character creation ): I would like to know more about how to "know" more about a true alived char...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

In the first discussion of the concept of "plot" given by [1] I, maybe, understood two different, but complementary, concepts of plot. Mckee gives us a definition of Plot as: To PLOT mean to n...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

In Robert McKee's book STORY, he says that a whole life story of a character must become a story well-told. So, it seems that the concept of "story told" is a representation of a "life story" tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Consider the following text: Tania is in her living room, in the summer. She looks to the window and the street in front of her house, then she realized how dry and parched they are, this ma...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

Considering the "story structure" proposed by Robert McKee; like: A story is a large structure composed by acts which are composed by sequences which are composed by scenes, which are composed by...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭