Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Faults of the Soul: Part 1

Sentimentality: false emotion through cheating or exaggeration.
  • Who is this character that we are to care for?
  • Appealing to stock (cliche) responses
    • Of course we all feel bad about those victims of 9/11. Does that mean we have to like those people who died or survived? Your job is to make us trust the emotions we have towards those characters.
  • Too many ...breathless...sentences. And. Too many short paragraphs kills us.

Action and Dialogue are your BFFs
  • Focus on the life lived, and insert details in the action, as opposed to over-telling a character's life. 

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