In past columns, I have mentioned the terms Climax and Resolution. I would like to explore these story elements in more detail along with Crisis, another important element. In my column on Rising Action, I explained how each scene builds incrementally and logically to a climactic scene. That scene, often called the obligatory scene is essential to good playwriting.
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Crisis, Climax and Resolution By Dale Griffiths Stamos December 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. ". . . called the 'obligatory...
A woman sits on a bench napping and then chatting on her cell phone. An older man in a suit stoops to read the inscription on a statue. An overweight man in jogging clothes, but too fat to jog, wanders into the park. Oliver Stone watches it all until bullets rake the park after the older man and the woman leave and the overweight jogger jumps into a hole and explodes.
Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters.
IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Rediscovering Premise By Dale Griffiths Stamos November 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. "Premise is the one sentence statement...
n her new novel, Great House, Author Nicole Krauss writes about a looming and inspirational antique desk, passed through different hands over generations and connecting her four narrators. From a poet in Chile to a New York novelist, these characters, like those in Krauss’ last novel, “The History of Love,” tell the story of what it means to inherit something both physical and emotional.
The Deeds of My Fathers Paul David Pope Atria Books 10-20-10 Hardcover/416 pages ISBN: 978-1-4422-0486-4 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a revelation written by a man who knows where all the skeletons are buried . . ." Solid...
American Assassin Vince Flynn Simon & Schuster 10-20-10 Hardcover/448 pages ISBN: 9781416595182 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .excels . . . in action and on the hunt." A thriller with murky beginnings and an ending like a...
Jerzy, Ao and Mahault have traded for a seaworthy boat to take them away from the Sin Washers after Jerzy for being an apostate. Jerzy convinced Ao, a trader, and Mahault, the maiar’s daughter, that there is something potent and evil behind all the trouble and they set out to finish the work Master Malech of the House of Malech set Jerzy when he went against tradition to send him to Vineart Giordan to learn some new methods of handling grapes vines.
