- I won't make you wait for the main idea. Here it is: correctly employed, POV does nothing less than tell you which scenes you're allowed to write, and which scenes you're not allowed to write.
Yep, that's correct -- in good storytelling, there are scenes you're not allowed to write.
Ha. This article, right here, completely revised my way of thinking about writing in 2001. It is easily the most influential thing I have ever read. Be gentle to the server, guys. Annie's a lovely lady but that thing is held together with duct tape and chewing gum.
I'm on a wordplayer kick. I'm not even a screenwriter, just listening to storytellers share insight on their craft is great. I hope Annie can take a small hit of hubski traffic.
Google doesn't index something on the open web? Under my hat it'll stay. I'm really into Terry Rossio's essays. His observation about how an audience member could tell TOY STORY was a better movie than SMALL SOLDIERS, even if they couldn't articulate why, hit a chord with me. I remember when I was younger thinking the exact same thing, why was TOY STORY just so much better? Ah of course, the humans, while present in both movies, are treated entirely differently. I thought it was a cute rule the animators chose to operate under to add a little humor to the movie (the toys have to scramble back into their original position before the door opens, and it was hilarious where they ended up freezing to an 8 year old) but it actually adds, or rather, removes an entire dimension from the story and focuses the film on the toys.
From http://www.wordplayer.com/siteinfo/feedback.html: For tape and gum, it seems to have a surprising number of trap holes set up for spiders.P.S.
As explained on-site, unauthorized robots, crawlers, read off-line or read-later apps, pre-loaders, auto-checkers -- bookmark; feed; link; page update; Top Site -- as well as faked browsers, automated access and/or accelerator programs, etc., are not okay, sorry.
A few obstacles, but for the hell of it, I managed to make a personal private mirror of the pages that I want. Am terribly slow at reading the articles others post on here, so it's nice to have my own copy when it comes to shaky / temporal websites like this and them NSFWCorp stuff people keep posting on here.
Also unnecessary, when the archives are all provided: http://www.wordplayer.com/archives/archtoc2.html