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“I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.”

Thinking Writing Believe Ideas Order I Believe Sound Pay Attention Identity Universal Dramatic Truthful Universality Dramatic Writing

Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.”

Should Heart Ends Stories Able Film Powerful Attention Audience Successful Middle Emotional Intellectual Narrative Dramatic Capture Viewers Arcs Protagonists Beginning Middle And End

Author:Julia Bacha

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost