https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:15:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/58353.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:15:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/58353.html 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 7.16: Continuing with Mary's Outline<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/04/15/writing-excuses-7-16-continuing-with-marys-outline/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/04/15/writing-excuses-7-16-continuing-with-marys-outline/</a><br /><br />Key points: watch for decision points, turning points. Build your themes. Use something three times before it becomes pivotal. A low point may signal the transition from Act II to Act III. Also incapacitation of the mentor. Be careful of resolving conflicts too easily or quickly, give them depth and time to be interesting. Be wary of inactive, uninvolved characters -- make them active, get them personally involved.<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/58353.html#cutid1">Running overtime with lots of words!</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Howard] Since it's likely that I'm not going to get exactly what I want from Mary, give us a monkey, a bronze pot, a baby, and pizza in completely different situations than what we've just heard.<br />[Brandon] All right. This has been Writing Excuses.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=58353" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/58353.html mentor active conflicts involvement low point turning points themes act iii decision ponts act ii whimsical public ext_88293 0