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The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff--just like a joke. The setup tells us what the game is. The buildup is where you put in all the moves, the forward motion, where you get all the meat off the turkey. The payoff answers the question, Why are we here anyway? What is it that you've been trying to give?
page: 59
tags:
drama
jokes
When you start off writing, you may want to fill the page with witticisms and shimmering insights so that the world will see how uniquely smart and sensitive you are. But much of the drama of humankind does not involve witticisms and shimmer.
page: 104
tags:
drama
writing
wit
insight
We're in a medium that demands a lot of repetition, and our job as dramatists is to conceal this fact. We do this by writing alts. 20 different ways of saying the same thing, so we have a variation to use in each place that thing is needed to be said.
page: 37
tags:
alts
drama
story