Guess what? All the things that work in writing prose fiction work just as well – maybe even better – in teleplays and screenplays. So it behooves us all to know the following truths that should be self-evident but…you know…:
by Rita Karnopp
I think of my novel as the intricate weaving of a double hoop dream catcher (this is one I’ve made). The web is unified and patterned until it approaches a bead or fetish and it has to find a way to conquer it and move onto the next obstacle (as scenes in your book). It has a beginning, middle, and an end. No two dream catchers are alike.
Let’s clarify beginning, since I always start a story in the middle of action. Some might think the beginning of a dream catcher is the top, while others say the bottom, and again others believe it begins in the middle – unwinding like one’s life. Ultimately the writer gets to choose.