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Posts by M.N.Raia‭

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Q&A 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 ...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Amadeus‭

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Q&A 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 def...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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, b...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A 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 ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mark Baker‭

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Q&A 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 cr...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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" tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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 ma...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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 char...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A Doubt about the double action of the concept of plot in fiction writing [closed]

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 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭