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Notes from the Fourth Act - Hand-writing Drama.  Working out the detectives’ discoveries in contemporary prime-time procedural crime series.  Procedurals are about our riding along with often unusual detectives’ unique methods; how we get from discovery to denouement is down to their personal interpretations of traditional evidence.  I’ve smudged out any spoilers, as this one hasn’t aired yet.

Scratch Decoder/Process:

1.  time - where are we in the viewers’ experience of the story/dramatic hour

2.  stakes - what’s in the balance, what’s the (always theoretical) solution, how long do we have to figure this out before the worst thing happens?

3. regular characters in play - who’s acting, deciding how this turns out & how

4. what are their obstacles & choices, impact/feeding one another’s progress

5. a sticky noted lead in to act five (the climax) - where I’m writing to, in the story, for the fourth act
Feb 12
Notes from the Fourth Act - Hand-writing Drama.  Working out the detectives’ discoveries in contemporary prime-time procedural crime series.  Procedurals are about our riding along with often unusual detectives’ unique methods; how we get from discovery to denouement is down to their personal interpretations of traditional evidence.  I’ve smudged out any spoilers, as this one hasn’t aired yet. Scratch Decoder/Process: 1.  time - where are we in the viewers’ experience of the story/dramatic hour 2.  stakes - what’s in the balance, what’s the (always theoretical) solution, how long do we have to figure this out before the worst thing happens? 3. regular characters in play - who’s acting, deciding how this turns out & how 4. what are their obstacles & choices, impact/feeding one another’s progress 5. a sticky noted lead in to act five (the climax) - where I’m writing to, in the story, for the fourth act

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Posted on Sunday February 12th 2012 at 10:37am. Its tags are listed below.

Notes from the Fourth Act - Hand-writing Drama.  Working out the detectives’ discoveries in contemporary prime-time procedural crime series.  Procedurals are about our riding along with often unusual detectives’ unique methods; how we get from discovery to denouement is down to their personal interpretations of traditional evidence.  I’ve smudged out any spoilers, as this one hasn’t aired yet. Scratch Decoder/Process: 1.  time - where are we in the viewers’ experience of the story/dramatic hour 2.  stakes - what’s in the balance, what’s the (always theoretical) solution, how long do we have to figure this out before the worst thing happens? 3. regular characters in play - who’s acting, deciding how this turns out & how 4. what are their obstacles & choices, impact/feeding one another’s progress 5. a sticky noted lead in to act five (the climax) - where I’m writing to, in the story, for the fourth act

Notes from the Fourth Act - Hand-writing Drama.  Working out the detectives’ discoveries in contemporary prime-time procedural crime series.  Procedurals are about our riding along with often unusual detectives’ unique methods; how we get from discovery to denouement is down to their personal interpretations of traditional evidence.  I’ve smudged out any spoilers, as this one hasn’t aired yet.

Scratch Decoder/Process:

1.  time - where are we in the viewers’ experience of the story/dramatic hour

2.  stakes - what’s in the balance, what’s the (always theoretical) solution, how long do we have to figure this out before the worst thing happens?

3. regular characters in play - who’s acting, deciding how this turns out & how

4. what are their obstacles & choices, impact/feeding one another’s progress

5. a sticky noted lead in to act five (the climax) - where I’m writing to, in the story, for the fourth act

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Posted on Sunday February 12th 2012 at 09:54am. Its tags are listed below.

Kevin Purdy's case for physicality in writing

(Click the title to read the item I refer to, New Readers). While always wary of attempts to quantify creativity, or perpetuate the myth that there is any given way to be a better writer…  this item caught my eye because I hand-write everything exploratory.  From tag-lines to character descriptions to beating scenes and sequences and mapping structure and plots, it gets worked over with a favourite brand of pen in a moleskine, or on a sticky note, index card or anything that affixes itself to a surface I can step back and stare at, first.  Even my project diaries are lists.  The exception is dialogue.  My characters tend to talk fast and tell me more if I free-type, and then though - I print and edit them - for timing & voice - by hand.

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