 Drama: July 20, 2005 Issue [#504] |
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Drama occurs all around us each and every day in our ordinary lives. What we do with that drama makes all the difference in the world. As writers, we should be filling notebooks with ideas for stories based on real life happenings that we have witnessed. Then, we need to look back at those notes and mold and blend them into wonderful works of fiction for all the world to read
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Here are two definitions of the word drama that I found at www.m-w.com, the Merriam/Webster dictionary online: 1. a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces and 2. a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance. Based on these two definitions, the tag "drama" can apply to stories in just about any drama. Indeed, in my list of picks for this month, we have two mysteries, two romances, a crime story, a war story, an emotional piece, a biographical piece, a book, and a horror/scary story. When you sit yourself down to write a drama, think about these definitions, and don't forget to include a great deal of conflict for your characters to work their way through.
If you are writing a mystery/crime story, be sure to keep your detective, and/or his/her family in escalating peril throughout. This not only makes for good reading, but it keeps the detective, as well as the reader, off balance and guessing who the perpetrator might be.
When writing a romance, you might want to consider adding in a touch of comedy by having a lack of communication between the lovers toss a monkey wrench into their ability to understand what is happening around them. Think of all the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn films in which their characters were at odds with each other throughout the films before they kissed and made up while the radiant sun set behind them and the screen faded to black. Or, you can take a more serious tack by revealing the actual problems that exist within the outwardly harmonious relationship and either have the couple resolve their differences or not as the mood may strike you.
In a biographical piece, be sure to choose a situation to write about that is either highly emotionally packed and will keep the reader on an emotional roller coaster, or choose a vignette that involves rapidly shifting action that keeps both the reader and main character off balance from the start. Since this sort of writing reveals a lot of personally painful or otherwise emotional experiences, you may want to choose carefully so that you are not writing about something that you would really rather not share with the world at large...especially if you are going to post it on a website like this one where many people are likely to see it each day.
Each and every day, we find ourselves surrounded with real life dramatic situations. Take the time at least once every day or so to jot down some of the more memorable moments to be used as fodder for the dramatic stories that you may write in the future. It is perfectly fine to take real life and fictionalize it as needed for the stories you write.
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Here are my picks for this month. Hope you enjoy reading these pieces, and don't forget to review the pieces you read...
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