Dramatic Writing BWR100
Description
Write drama like a professional! There are many different types of writing – short stories, poems, novels, screen plays etc. Dramatic writing can fall into all of these. A short story usually takes place over a shorter period of time. It is often set in just one setting/scene, and the characters may be shown with broader strokes – there is not as much time to analyse characters as there is with novel writing.Learn to Write Drama
Are you worried that your stories are boring?
Do you want to learn how to write engaging and powerful plots?
Do you want to spend less time obsessed with syntax and more time thinking about what you want your reader to feel and what you are trying to express?
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Learn to Write Drama
Are you worried that your stories are boring?
Do you want to learn how to write engaging and powerful plots?
Do you want to spend less time obsessed with syntax and more time
thinking about what you want your reader to feel and what you are
trying to express?
Do you have great story ideas but don\'t know where to start?
This course will help you no matter what style of writing you do,
or where in the world you live.
There are many different types of writing - short stories, poems,
novels, screen plays etc. Dramatic writing can be useful in all of
these. This course takes lessons from many different writing styles
(including screen writing) and allows you to apply them to your own
work.
Most importantly, it\'s inspiring.
By the end of the course you should have one extended or a number
of short, well polished stories as well as the skills and desire to
continue writing.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
* Motivation
* Typing Time
* Types of Writing : Reflection, Exposition, Description,
Explanation, Argument
* Making Decisions about what to Write
* Know your stuff
* The concept
* Synopsis
* Keeping a Notebook
* Process of Story Development
* Planning a Story
* Developing your Voice
* Useful terms
2. Characters
* Developing the characters
* Building Characters
* Main Characters
* Minor Characters
3. Theme & Genre
* Developing a Theme
* Universal Themes
* Sub Themes
* Creating Conflict
* Names
4. Plot Development
* First Decisions
* Ambience
* The End of a Story
* Types of Dramatic Story: Memoirs, Biographies, Reflective
Stories, Historical etc
5. Weaving a Story
* Techniques: Action, Emotion, Mirror; Parallel lives, Palm
Cards
* Writers Block
* Developing a Story Line
* Things to Avoid
* Different Approaches: Dialectic, Transition
* How a Character Affects a Plot
* How Plot Affects Genre
* Goals
* Consequences
* Motive
* Flashbacks and Flashforwards
6. Writing a Dramatic Short Story
* Main Character and Antagonist
* Creating a Sense of Place
* Counting Out Your Story
* Short Stories
7. Developing Sub Plots
* Method
* Plants
* Activity
8. Writing a Chapters for a Dramatic Work (Novel or
Play)
* Getting Published
* Writing Resources
* Writing as a Business
* Vanity Publishing
* Dealing with Publishers
* Creating a Chapter or Segment of a larger work
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the
school, marked by the school\'s tutors and returned to you with any
relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra
reading.
Aims
* Define and develop an understanding of dramatic writing.
* Develop methods of developing characters in dramatic writing.
* Define different genres and develop themes for dramatic
writing.
* Develop techniques for developing your plot.
* Describe techniques for weaving a story.
* Develop a short story using dramatic writing.
* Develop a chapter of dramatic writing.
* Determine how to develop sub plots.
There are many different types of writing – short stories, poems,
novels, screen plays etc. Dramatic writing can fall into all of
these. A short story usually takes place over a shorter period of
time. It is often set in just one setting/scene, and the characters
may be shown with broader strokes – there is not as much time to
analyse characters as there is with novel writing.
A novel, however, allows more space to describe characters and
scenes. There may be more than one scene and more than one plot.
The plots may be multilayered.
Writing comes in many forms, all of which can be creatively
employed and manipulated by the creative writer, regardless of the
genre (novel, poetry, travel guide etc) in which she or he is
writing. One form of writing is rarely used on its own.
Common forms of dramatic writing are:
* Reflection: An internal process of reviewing and making meaning
from one\'s own experience;
* Exposition or Reporting: Covers a wide area of writing. Events,
thoughts and situations are exposed or shown to the reader, as in
textbooks, magazine articles or news stories, but also when the
narrator or a character takes an informing role. One very important
form of reporting or exposition for writers is description.
* Description: The reporting of information to convey an impression
or feeling about a place, person, thing or idea, rather than facts.
Description can be a small part of a particular narrative, or the
main part of it. A lot of good travel writing is descriptive, as is
a lot of fiction. Consider the heavy overlapping of description and
exposition in this description of a circus performer by E.B. White
(not in one of her novels, but in a newspaper article):
o The richness of the scene was in its plainness, its natural
condition - of horse, of ring, of girl, even to the girl\'s bare
feet that gripped the bare back of her proud and ridiculous mount.
The enchantment grew not out of anything that happened … but out
of something that seemed to go round and round with the girl,
attending her, a steady gleam in the shape of a circle …
* Explanation: A process of leading another person to a particular
understanding or perception through information and reason, rather
than through persuasive language. It includes instruction, rules
and guidelines, argument and analysis.
* Argument: Aims to persuade the reader to change their viewpoint
or attitude about an idea or situation. It is
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