The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

by Will Dunne

Book Overview

Moss Hart once said that you never really learn how to write a play; you only learn how to write this play. Crafted with that adage in mind, The Dramatic Writer's Companion is designed to help writers explore their own ideas in order to develop the script in front of them. No ordinary guide to plotting, this handbook starts with the principle that character is key. "The character is not something added to the scene or to the story,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226172546
• ISBN13: 9780226172545
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"