Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers
Ready to step your creative writing up a gear?

Discover the powerful dramatic concepts used by playwrights and screenwriters to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Transform your understanding of space, time, characters and action.

Get to grips with scenes, status, rituals, subtext and objects, to write more compelling, driven scenes.

This practical guide is ideal for fiction writers, playwrights, poets and copywriters who want to write and edit boldly, with greater impact. Learn

    how playwrights and screenwriters wrangle time and spacehow to write characters with dramatic energyhow to use the secret power of metaphorhow to boost pace and tensionhow to write subtext

...and discover hidden treasures from high-powered dramatic thinkers, from Stanislavski to Goffman to Bachelard.

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!

Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and she has 13 years' experience as a Creative Writing Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

Superlatives aren't enough. A must for every creative writer. Open University student
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Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers
Ready to step your creative writing up a gear?

Discover the powerful dramatic concepts used by playwrights and screenwriters to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Transform your understanding of space, time, characters and action.

Get to grips with scenes, status, rituals, subtext and objects, to write more compelling, driven scenes.

This practical guide is ideal for fiction writers, playwrights, poets and copywriters who want to write and edit boldly, with greater impact. Learn

    how playwrights and screenwriters wrangle time and spacehow to write characters with dramatic energyhow to use the secret power of metaphorhow to boost pace and tensionhow to write subtext

...and discover hidden treasures from high-powered dramatic thinkers, from Stanislavski to Goffman to Bachelard.

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!

Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and she has 13 years' experience as a Creative Writing Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

Superlatives aren't enough. A must for every creative writer. Open University student
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Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

by Jules Horne
Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers

by Jules Horne

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Overview

Ready to step your creative writing up a gear?

Discover the powerful dramatic concepts used by playwrights and screenwriters to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Transform your understanding of space, time, characters and action.

Get to grips with scenes, status, rituals, subtext and objects, to write more compelling, driven scenes.

This practical guide is ideal for fiction writers, playwrights, poets and copywriters who want to write and edit boldly, with greater impact. Learn

    how playwrights and screenwriters wrangle time and spacehow to write characters with dramatic energyhow to use the secret power of metaphorhow to boost pace and tensionhow to write subtext

...and discover hidden treasures from high-powered dramatic thinkers, from Stanislavski to Goffman to Bachelard.

Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers is just the jolt your creative writing needs!

Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, and she has 13 years' experience as a Creative Writing Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

Superlatives aren't enough. A must for every creative writer. Open University student

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780993435492
Publisher: Texthouse
Publication date: 08/01/2018
Series: Method Writing , #2
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

Table of Contents

Part I

Is This You?

Introduction

Part II - Dramatic Foundations

Space

Visualizing Space

Mental Spaces

Time

Dramatic Action

Tension

Scene

Beats

Wants and Stakes

Objects

Physicality

Contrast

Fatal Flaw

Status

Show and Tell

Spectacle

Improv

Secrets

Dramatic Irony

Wants and Stakes

Objects

Physicality

Contrast

Fatal Flaw

Status

Show and Tell

Spectacle

Improv

Secrets

Dramatic Irony

Obligatory Scene

Catharsis

Fourth Wall

Transformation

Part III - Dramatic Thinkers

Konstantin Stanislavski

Erving Goffman

Aristotle

Abraham Maslow

Karl Iglesias

Dara Marks

Gaston Bachelard

Keith Johnstone

Part IV And Finally…

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