tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-14:3071550 Writing Excuses Transcripts Writing Excuses Transcripts 2011-09-08T16:38:00Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-14:3071550:48964 ext_88293 2011-09-08T16:38:00Z 2011-09-08T16:38:00Z Fiddly bits public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/09/04/writing-excuses-6-14-suspension-of-disbelief/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/09/04/writing-excuses-6-14-suspension-of-disbelief/</a><br /><br />Key points: Suspension of Disbelief. Plausibility. Helping the reader pretend that it is all real. Don't be too tidy. Insert things that are just part of the world, not plot specific (beware fluff!). Don't ask readers to suspend their disbelief about too many things. Let readers know early what they need to believe. Don't break human nature. When readers believe the characters and the story, they will stick with you for fantastic things. Lay the groundwork. Don't shoot yourself in the foot with Chekov's gun. Start by making small things plausible, and build up to being strange things. When characters are surprised, it can help readers believe. Try bathos -- a dash of ridicule in the midst of intense drama and emotion.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/48964.html#cutid1">nailing down belief?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] All right. We're going to take this out. Mary, you've got a writing prompt for us?<br />[Mary] Yes. I want you to write a story and make us believe one impossible thing. If you can't come up with it on your own, try teleportation.<br />[Brandon] Okay. This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=48964" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-14:3071550:43319 ext_88293 2011-04-07T16:02:00Z 2011-04-07T16:02:00Z Spring fever public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/04/03/writing-excuses-5-31-writing-romance/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/04/03/writing-excuses-5-31-writing-romance/</a><br /><br />Key points: How to write romance? Write it well. Bad romance scenes are thrown in, filler -- good romance scenes have a build up and an emotional payoff. The reader needs to like the romantic interest as much as the character does. The reader needs to understand the reason that the character is falling in love. Fulfilling relationships need characters that meet a need in each other. They need to complete each other.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/43319.html#cutid1">hearts and roses</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Dan] You're out of excuses. If you sat through all two hours of this, we apologize. But thank you very much for coming.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=43319" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments