https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:20:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/37959.html Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:20:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/37959.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 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/10/17/writing-excuses-5-7-avoiding-melodrama/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/10/17/writing-excuses-5-7-avoiding-melodrama/</a><br /><br />Key points: Melodrama grows out of one-sidedness. Make your characters real people. Avoid cliche. Set up your emotional scenes. Make characters likable. Variation and contrasts add spice.<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/37959.html#cutid1">lots of melodrama, and a dramatic reading!</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=37959" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/37959.html characters variations cliche emotions contrasts spice melodrama drippy public ext_88293 0 https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/30319.html Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:45:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/30319.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 Season Four Episode 11: Jordo Tries to Stump Us<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/03/21/writing-excuses-4-11-brainstorming-examples/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/03/21/writing-excuses-4-11-brainstorming-examples/</a><br /><br />Key points: Push the words, ring variations on their meaning, try interpreting it literally or metaphorically, what happens next, why would this happen? Combine it with something else. Is it like something else? Where's the conflict? Who hurts? <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/30319.html#cutid1">brainstorming in public?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Howard] What have we got for a writing prompt?<br />[Brandon] Writing prompt is the very next thing Jordan was going to say.<br />[Jordo] New Zealand woman sells souls to the highest bidder.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=30319" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/30319.html ideas combine why and then literal conflict variations headlines brainstorming metaphor Red Rock by Smokin' Armadillos caught up public ext_88293 0