 Drama: October 26, 2022 Issue [#11614] |
This week: Constantly Overreacting Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Constantly Overreacting
Life is full of dramas small and benign. As writers, we can work with that. The best way to incorporate normal life into writing is by grossly overreacting to everything all of the time. Fallacies are our best friends when we try to take something boring and want to make it not boring. Here are some that I recommend. Not in real life, but in fiction, yes.
Argumentum Ad Hominem
Argument toward the man. Attack or praise the person who made an argument instead of addressing what was said. Works well to help creating characters on both sides of the argument.
Argumentum Ad Populum
Argument to the people. No proof for the argument is needed since the claim here is that everyone in general is in agreement. The "everyone says so" bandwagon.
Argumentum Ad Verecundium
Appeal to improper authority. That is to use the name of a famous person to claim that something must be true. Although that person does not have any connection to the topic. An example would be a dentist recommending that we all smoke cigarettes.
Argument from Consequences
The argument made must be true as an otherwise negative outcome is guaranteed. If we don't stop growing palm trees on that hill, the volcano will awake and lava will come down the hill and boil everything.
Begging the Question ~ or ~ Circular Reasoning
Prove a claim by repeating it over and over but with different words. Clearly, this one is not a fallacy because I'm telling you that it isn't. Fallacies are not real. I can tell you anything I want and you should believe me.
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Replies to my last Drama newsletter "Based On Real Events" that asked the question: How true to the original should a story that was based on real events be?
Elfin Dragon-finally published  wrote: I've often thought that if you're going to write a dramatized version of a story, it should be as close to the facts as possible. Sure, you'll have to probably guess what people were thinking and sometimes doing at the time. But you can draw upon news reels and history notes.
Quick-Quill  wrote: I wrote Silent River based on an unsolved murder. Because the missing family is the inciting incident, the rest of the plot is based on actual police reports and interviews with the detective on the case. I wrote it as fiction so I could put things in the story that were circumstantial evidence. I still didn't point to the person the detective and I felt initiated the murder. He's still alive. I think.
Paul  wrote: Thank you for that post, it made me think of some events I’ve lived through that are amusing. Imagine the backstory for refusing to eat a piece of your mothers, aunts, grandmothers or whoever’s pumpkin pie. I detest pumpkin pie because the high vitamin A veggies like pumpkin and sweet potatoes taste rancid and make me vomit. Not an easy thing to grow up with because no one believed me. It was always, “you’ll love the way I fixed them.”
Almost any event has a backstory that can be exploited if you can pull the idea out of the muses top hat.
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