If you want readers to wonder whether your protagonist is unconscious or awake for most of your scene, make its ambiguous status clear. If readers are uncertain whether the dream is real, and they don’t know they’resupposedto be uncertain,they could feel confused. Instead of focusing on ...
The dreamer must be the main protagonist of his dreams, the hero of his dreamy narratives. This, overwhelmingly, is the case: dreams are egocentric. They are concerned mostly with the "patient" and use other figures, settings, locales, situations to cater to his needs, to reconstruct his r...
but I can’t imagine life without them. The key with these document softwares is that you have to understand publishing and printing concepts and terminology. And sometimes if it seems you have to reinvent the wheel with each new project, it’s just another great learning experience. As you ...
A lot of the time I find myself very invigorated by the solutions to the practical realities we face, whether it’s in wardrobe or hair or photography or whatever. It’s those parameters which start to make the thing unique, make it what it is. I can’t really imagine myself ever ...
The novel is narrated by the protagonist herself, in a style infused with all the wit and wisdom she needs to draw on to survive the trials she encounters. The music of the prose captures the verve and passion of the lives it traces, and the arc of the narrative follows an epic traject...
Tennessee Williams is known for his use of symbols, tension, and irony. Williams uses all of these components to express the central theme of The Glass Menagerie - hope followed by despair. Each of the characters has dreams that are destroyed by the harsh realities of the world. As the ...
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like a normal scene. Once readers discover the scene was a dream, they might look back and think it was unrealistic because it didn’t feel that way. To help avoid this problem, you can make the dream get slightly weirder as it continues, slowly revealing that your protagonist is asleep...