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How to identify a (personal) Canon Sue? 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 create a character who "lives that cool stuff which I (the writer) WANTED but isn't possible." Well, this ... (more) |
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Non-sense question about plot structures 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 are just one of the "underlying structures" you may want (or, in most of the cases, should have) to use.... (more) |
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The concept of "Exotic Culture" and the necessity of a new world 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, but every single character (Alien or not) have the common factor of human conflict (which is one of the f... (more) |
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Doubt about the double action of the concept of plot in fiction writing 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 navigate through the dangerous terrain of story and when confronted by a dozen branching possibilities to ... (more) |
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Doubt about the concept of "true (or complex) character" 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 character. Now, if you think a little bit, the one will find a particular point of view that is tricky, I me... (more) |
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Doubt about a particular point of view on how to do character creation 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 named Shonda Rhimes. She has an interesting, but confusing, point of view about how she created a partic... (more) |
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Doubt about the difference between a "Beat" and a "Event" 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 definition about what is an event and what is a beat. A event is something which, naively speaking, is both ... (more) |
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The concept of description and the structure of Mckee's view of story design 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 makes her sadness even worse. After a labor day of house work, she decides to take a nap, which turned up to a... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
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Chapters of a Book and Story Structure of McKee 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 (trivial events, story events, and beats). Is it possible to say that (in general and considering moder... (more) |
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Does every story really represent a life-story, as McKee advises? 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" that fits in a finite amount of time (i.e. a book or a movie) compared to the whole lifetime of the characte... (more) |
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