The Paper Cup: Mind The Construction Lines (Part 3)
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the Narrative Device exercise and give it some movement with action and suspense.
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the Narrative Device exercise and give it some movement with action and suspense.
Whether sitting in a fiction workshop or acting as a beta reader, it can be difficult for writers at any level to articulate actionable feedback for their writing peers. Remember these three tips for always giving relevant and objective peer feedback, which will also help you write better stories.
Dramatic character controls the dramatic line and character elements. The dramatic line represents the cycles of set-up, action, and suspense that create movement, imagery, and meaning in story, ultimately ensuring that
In fiction writing and analysis, the three primary controls (or trees) of ADF are dramatic form, dramatic character, and dramatic mask.