Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Revision

A quick note on revision

Global - going over the whole thing to see if it flows well
Local - going segment by segment:

Character - is their desire there?

Scene - good first and last lines (the last line of each scene should give a clear ending to the scene and be clearly open to what happens next)? Tension? arch / change?

Setting - make sure to interact with it. No white rooms!

Style - play with sentence structure

Tension - elements that don't fit together? Fights? Misunderstandings?

Plot - how your character gets from A to B (or A to Z) and back again

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