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Title: Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot
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Manufacturer: Quill Driver Books
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| Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Quill Driver Books Pure Gold Amid The Rubble |
You have to dig for it, but there's gold in these pages. In between, there's a lot of cute stuff about the author -- pure unedited egoic writing. Who cares how grateful he is to the inventor of Index Cards?? A serious writer really wants to know How he uses them, Why, What benefits he finds in the process. That info is in the book but it's necessary to scan past the author's love affair with himself.
On the other hand, he does write for film and not for general readers -- maybe no one told him to be more attentive to the reader and less attentive to himself?
If you are a seriously creative writer of fiction or film, buy the book and X-out the paragraphs that are empty of the content you seek.
You will find a lovely concept of emotional flow for you story telling -- great stuff that no one else has addressed in the many "how to write" books that I have read.
He makes good distinctions between Plot [what happens] and Story [the emotional impact on the characters as well as the film viewer or fiction reader].
And he details the emotional path your character must travel.
Dunn is only focused on film scripts but I bought the book as an aid to working on novels.
Get the book and go mining for the good stuff -- take a deep breath and pass over the gunk.
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| Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Quill Driver Books good supplemental resource |
| Well written resource for those beginning to write screen plays. Examples are concrete and easy to understand. A good supplement to a basic book on screen writing. I don't think it is a stand alone. |
| Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Quill Driver Books buy it. It's good. |
| I should have posted this months ago. I bought this book, full price at the bookstore because I'd never seen anything like it. I still haven't. This guy is concise, thorough and easy to understand, using small words when small words are appropriate--instead of ten dollar words to show off his knowledge. I love it, have worn it out, and will buy anything else he does. Everyone else has talked about how good this book is. What I'll say is this--thank you for NOT using the sterotypical "archtype" babble, or mythic journey, or GMC, or any of the other overused cliches. This guy spent time thinking. It shows in his writing. Way to go, Dunne. |
| Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Quill Driver Books Get your Emotions to Rock Your Audience |
| This well written book conveys the importance of really connecting your audience to your charcters feats, flaws, and final acts. It a lesson well learned for any screen writer, think of your favorite movies, they made feel emotion for the heros, the villans etc. This emulates that concept through and through. |
| Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot by Quill Driver Books Essential Reading |
| I would recommended this book to all new screenwiters. Bring your characters from 2D to 3D! |
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