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 Hello scribes! I am thrilled to be your editor for this newsletter. It is my first time to give it a go! I remember my mom watching soap operas. I could not watch them as they go on and on without conclusion! LOL Melodrama!  I like watching Operas and plays filled with emotional intensity. So dramatic! Good stories I read involved excitement and emotional trials as well. They might have been dull without some drama. And then in real life, oh gosh! Drama queens like my sister! I may not write good drama, but I can recognize it. Can't you?
I did a little delving to discover:
What is drama?
I was inspired!
"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake." Julia Child
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out". Alfred Hitchcock
"Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict." Clint Eastwood
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 What is Drama?
 According to the dictionary drama is:
"a play,
or plays as a genre in literature,
or an exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance."
The word itself comes from 16th century via late Latin from Greek drama, from "dran" meaning: ‘do, act’.
The original idea of drama included a narrative performed by actors and so scripts, movies, and plays
using characters, props, music etc can have the audience more involved in the story.
Did you know he earliest dramas were in ancient Greece using hymns?
Lots of costumes, masks and choruses as dialogue.
Aeschylus is said to have written the first drama for outdoor theatres, with two actors on stage at a time,
so conflict could occur, and a chorus. Remember "Agammemnon"!
Sophocles was famous for "Oedipus the King" with its dramatic set of actions. Oedipus somehow kills his father and marries his mother!  Ah! Consequences!
Euripedes wrote "Medea" with themes of revenge, cruelty, suffering, all the causes of drama!
 Shakespeare is known as the Father of English Drama and his plays covered an enormous amount of "dramatic" elements. Many future writers were influenced by his templates. How dramatic is looking at a skull and contemplating death?  Choices!
Even from these early dramas I see the seeds of the four kinds of drama:
comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy and melodrama.
 The next definition applies to drama in short stories, novels, even poems as exciting, or emotional events happen daily and people love to share in the ups and downs of characters, or feel the dramatic effect of nature as they read. A story, like life, might be rather dull, without something to spark us and push us on. 
 What did my muse have to say in conclusion?
Drama is LIFE with toils and troubles
emotional crisis in cycles and bubbles
"he did," no, "she did", from a child's view.
Finding the peace can be hard to do.
Picture in your mind a nature scene.
Make it soothing and serene.
Lazing around, being received as you are
where's the drama when you gaze at a star?
Then mosquitoes bites from out of the air
and bang, peace is gone and you despair.
"Ouch" is the drama that takes you off line
where a minute ago things were just fine.
Drama, mm, does it begin in the mind
collective creations we are fated to find..
loss, grief, violence, discord and hate
pain, lies, surprises, romance failed on a date?
What is drama? What is it not?
Life happens right on the spot.
Reactions and choices, we have to act
Inciting consequences, and that's a fact.
How we deal with what rises from who knows where
gives our life its dramatic flair.
Happy or sad, with ecstasy or rage
drama's present in every age,
on every stage,
yes drama's present,
it's all the rage!
       
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