 Drama: September 13, 2017 Issue [#8498] |
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This week: A LifeTime Full Of It Edited by: Gaby  
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Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
~ Allegra Huston
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Hello from the dark side!  I have to say that ever since I've quit my job I've been watching the Lifetime channel. That makes it about three weeks now. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, it's more of a channel for women with a lot of drama movies of all sorts, crime, jealousy, backstabbing. You know, your every day housewife stuff.
However fun the movie watching can be while doing math as well as entertaining, it can give you quite a lot of ideas of what to do or even what not to do. So what are the good and bad ideas you can get from movies?
The main part is to realize that anything can happen. Anything, meaning, whatever you can think of, it can happen to your character. How outrageous can you be and how much of critical drama can you add to your story? it is up to you, but I'd suggest not to go overboard with it. Even the best reader will draw the line somewhere and question your story line. One of the movies I watched was about a mother ruining her teenage daughter's social as well as school life because she thought her daughter was too young to date and friends with, what she thought, were the wrong people. Needless to say that, whatever the ending, it was an inefficient one. It lacked justification, because it's really hard to find a real one, for a parent destroying their own child's life with intent.
That would be something to consider when writing. It's a given, Lifetime movies aren't the greatest. They don't make the Blockbuster's list, but they are still good. Not everyone prefers action packed movies and a slower pace can be more welcome at times. If you base your story on drama being the main genre, you have to consider all possible angles before calling it a success. While every other story contains drama as sub-genre to make things a bit more interesting, your story is full of it. Hence, you have to find other resources to bring it to life. Be that a crime, a death, jealousy, mean people out for money and someone else's success, you have to have a niche that will draw your audience in. The pace is slower when writing drama, so anything you add has to be at a restricted pace as well. Too much of it will change the aspect of the story and you have to introduce those gradually and steadily rather than rush it.
After watching this many drama movies, I'm almost tempted to write a story myself. If I did, my main questions would be, what is wrong with a character and what do they want. You can use the same questions with any genre, but here, it silently revolves around them while with others it may hardly keep them in the picture. 
'Til next time!
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