It is. And it’s quite fascinating, the way that everything has a backstory in the show. Misha is always planting seeds to future stories. Everything she does is extremely structured. It was a joy to work with her, because she doesn’t micromanage every pixel. We’re not moving element...
Ending a scene: Creating a satisfying departure point The end of a scene is a good place to bring an incident to some degree of closure (yet with open, suspense-creating questions lingering). Dickens does this simply by having Pip escape the man’s clutches after promising to bring him wha...
focused on the experiences of Scout Finch,a young white girl growing up in the small town of Maycomb,Alabama,during the 1930s.In the story,her father Atticus,a lawyer,defends an African-American man charged with a serious case,which leads some people in the town to tur...
A plot, requires cause and effect. The mouse ate a cookie and then asked for a glass of milk is a plot because it’s causal. I’ll let Forster explain it better: “Let us define plot. We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is al...
“No one I know of would argue that Donald Trump inculcates moral character,” Flynt says. “What has happened to American Christianity is there is this afterglow of what a candidate is supposed to represent. It’s no longer moral character. It’s policy positions on things that bother evan...
“main character” will be the same person. But occasionally,these roles may be split, with the main character acting as an important observer to the protagonist’s actions. We see this with pairings such as Sherlock Holmes/John Watson and Atticus Finch/Scout Finch inTo Kill a Mockingbird. ...
Does anyone else feel like this puzzle piece is closing a hole in the universe or something? Just me? Too much Dr. Who, I guess. InThe Write Structure, we talk about the six elements of plot: 1.Exposition. At the beginning of the story, the exposition establishes characters and setting...