troubleshooting

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A Good Beginning Holds the Story’s Ending

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged beginnings endings troubleshooting on August 30, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on August 31, 2015)

Clark Blaise in his essay “To Begin, To Begin” (to be found in the book How Stories Mean, edited by John Metcalf ) puts forward […]

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David Hare: How to make your scenes feel more real 3 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged BAFTA Guru screenwriting lecture David Hare definitions Graham Greene literary terms love scenes rewriting troubleshooting verisimilitude on December 4, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 15, 2014)

Image: Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan as Baines and Julie in ‘The Fallen Idol’ (1948) What is “verisimilitude”? Verisimilitude means “seeming real or life-like”; it […]

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Projecting emotions 7 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged avoiding cliche getting unstuck rewriting subtext tone troubleshooting on December 3, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 15, 2014)

John Thornton Williams explains a better way to “show don’t tell” how your characters are feeling: through indirection of image, or projecting their emotions onto […]

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