tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033603289695178338.post1080819971341705818..comments2023-04-03T19:22:59.296+10:00Comments on BOOM: THE COMMON UNDERSTANDINGAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13302039152007195823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033603289695178338.post-73994114511227487902011-05-06T15:40:10.341+10:002011-05-06T15:40:10.341+10:00Lara - Thanks for your thoughtful response to the ...Lara - Thanks for your thoughtful response to the essay and my ideas. I would appreciate it if you would post this comment on yours on the TESTIMONIALS page at http://www.wheresthedrama.com as what you have experienced is shared by others who have not yet made the leap away from the structuralist recipes that successfull keep passion, freshness and originality at bay. <br /><br /><br />best BillyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13302039152007195823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033603289695178338.post-59557324880204018642011-05-06T08:16:41.568+10:002011-05-06T08:16:41.568+10:00Hi Billy, I find your theories of storytelling to ...Hi Billy, I find your theories of storytelling to be very interesting. I am a writer/screenwriter/teacher, who has also been led astray by too much emphasis on structure. Sure, learning more about story structure has of course helped my writing much. But just placing these "events" in one's story, and trying to build character around them can prove difficult. I had a breakthrough recently when I realized that the heart of story is only character. It is the characters' wants, desires and misdirected needs that push plot, not, oh, okay, we need to put the inciting incident here, and now we're onto the midpoint complication, and, oh, look, here comes the descent into the utmost cave... Each scene is an arc based on character wants. In fact, each line and different parts of each sentence of dialogue help exhibit different character desires. In this way, actors can sometimes understand character as much or more than writers do.Lara Sterlinghttp://www.yourplotthickens.comnoreply@blogger.com