“The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will result in sudden death.”
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Simple rules for better writing: Most important word at the end of the sentence. Most important sentence at the end of the paragraph. I could hear the whistle of the axe already. I could already hear the whistle of the axe. The power in a sentence comes at the end.
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You’ll be able to concentrate on her world, her problems, her diction, her speech patterns — all the way to the bottom of the scene. When you’re done, print it.
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And you write and write and write — only Character A’s dialogue. You don’t have to write the other person’s dialogue yet, so don’t worry about it. Just be a guy from Brooklyn, and let ‘er rip.
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“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else
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Did your character do ____________ that was unexpected? Did the new situation bring something out in your character that you didn’t intend? Cool!
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Get into the scene as late as possible, get out as early as possible.
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Make sure the set up and pay off are far enough apart for it to really work.
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The best description of Act Two is “things get worse.” In a well-structured second act, YOUR second act, things get much, much worse, and faster and faster.
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Dostoyevsky supposedly said there are only two stories in all of literature, “A man goes on a journey and a stranger comes to town.” The Inciting Incident is when the man starts his journey or the stranger comes to town.