If you want to write a novel or screenplay you need a step by step process. A good story doesn’t just happen by accident. As Dwight V Swain said in his book the Techniques of the Selling Writer, “Four boys in Fred Friggenhelmers town last night stole a chalice from a church. Caught, they reveal theyve been reading up on Satan and want to evoke Satan. Fred reads about the incident in his morning paper. It intrigues him. Here, he tells himself excitedly, is a story! ‘Fred is wrong. The theft is an incident. With skilled handling and the development of point of view and dynamic character and complications and climax and resolution, it may quite possibly build into a story. But for now it remains an incident and nothing more. ‘Feelings tell you what to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it. Faculty lies in knowing what to do next. ‘To know what to do next, you must master process ... an ordered step-by-step presentation of materials that presses emotional buttons in your reader, so he feels the way you want him to feel. To see the Writers’ Studio process go to writerstudio.au/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:56:03 +0000