 Drama: June 07, 2006 Issue [#1084] |
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This week: Edited by: MandiK~ : p  
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The New Wester's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, 1997 edition states that Drama is as follows:
1. a prose or verse composition presenting dialogue and action. a story involving conflict or contrast of characters, intended to be performed on the stage; play
2. any event or series of events having vivid, conflicting elements that capture one's interest
Or in other words- life. If you write a story or poem true to life as you know it or as you perceive it, you would pretty much have the basis for drama. Drama is loving, hating, crying, laughing, playing, working, and just everyday being. It can be as emotional as the final scene from Scarface or as quietly blissful as On Golden Pond. Either way it is drama, and drama is life.
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When I was chosen to become one of the editors for the Drama newsletter, I was shocked. You see, I've only been on Writing.com for a little over one year, and already I have been made a Preferred Writer, then a Moderator and now, Editor. Now I'm not telling you this to make you say, "Wow! She must be good!", but instead to let you know where I am coming from.
I look around me on a daily basis and I can see story ideas at every turn, but like many of you, I don't write them down. Mostly for me, it's because I'm afraid to embarass my children. Not because of what I write, but because it is mostly about them. What I write, I write about life or as I've coined it: biographical fiction. I take a brief snapshot of time and build a story around it, keeping the characters mostly in tack, but tweeked a bit. Not unlike most drama.
Take for example a typical morning conversation following an exciting sports event. The conversations heard the morning following game seven of the Sabres verses the Hurricanes was quite interesting to hear. I had watched the game, heart pounding as it was, but when I overheard these conversations around the office that morning, many had creatively altered some of the action. Plays were missed or embellished depending on the slant of the observer, but all in all the essense of the game was left in tact. Even the never-give-up attitude of the Sabres was there, as they battled the last few seconds for the goal that never came.
Writing drama is like that.
Events of life, whether real or imagined, are captured in vivid detail for the reader to relive through the words on the page. Characters are created more life-like than your new neighbors and become life-long friends. A good writer can do this through descriptions and imagery, drawing you into a world built only with words that transform into a life unlike your own.
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When life is witnessed by an old gazebo, the point of view takes on an interesting perspective~
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Life and death to a child of eight can be quite a tramatic thing~
Even in a mere 100 words, drama can be found~
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Poetry can be dramatic as well. Especially when telling of a little known "mishap" that occurs many times in France~
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