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A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there. You do that by building what you hope is an unarguable structure. Beginning, middle, end. Aristotle, Page 1.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
He vented any repressed desires to write by volunteering his ideas to authors who had the time and temperament to devote to a single project.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Screenplays are structure. Precisely made Swiss clocks of emotion.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
this happens which forces our hero to make this decision which leads to this confrontation, which is resolved in this way.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
narrative strategy
Tom White and • 9 cards
Progressive Complications: that great sweeping body of story that spans from Inciting Incident to Crisis/Climax of the final act.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Carnegie
carlton smith • 9 cards
What seems beautiful to me, what I should most like to do, would be a book about nothing, a book without any exterior ties, but sustained by the internal force of its style . . . a book which would have almost no subject, or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible, if that is possible. The most beautiful works are those with least m
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