tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22689086.post114169282650572906..comments2023-10-31T04:09:06.266-07:00Comments on Muse Unplugged: The Writer. The Filmmaker, the MediumsUrsulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13202399120717363308noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22689086.post-1141787666333402732006-03-07T19:14:00.000-08:002006-03-07T19:14:00.000-08:00As synchronicity would have it, I took a second pl...As synchronicity would have it, I took a second plunge into McKee's book on Story. He had some really interesting insights, which I'm chewing over and will most likely puke up in some more blog posts: but one really speaks to the painstaking attention to detail. He talks about being true to your character, how it's revealed in choice, and how choice is forced from the character through pressure. Such pressures create turning points, key we know to the scene of screne or book. He also says (and I'm paraphrasing) that you as story teller will amass far more material than you'll use in the finished product. Now, here's me: storycrafting is like distilling a fine whiskey: first you need a whole mess of mash and some fermentation. The end product goes through many filters and the touch of the master brewer. As storyteller, you filter through the tremendous amount of 'stuff' you've accumulated and decide what, placed where, for why, and when, will force the characters into action and decision. What details you show depends on the pov, and being true to your character. I think Kleypas, and Balogh do that: they're excellent character writers, but have a fine eye for detail, one that sees what's (to borrow from Monte Python) 'correct for the idiom' of the character. <BR/>Sometimes I think you rewrite, other times you trash, other times you change POV> The key to the scene is it's placement and role in the evolution of the character and the story.<BR/>You really should read this book, it's totally intense. My first time out, I felt like I was reading "How to write storys" by "Marcel Proust after the nervous breakdown". Then, my mind must have undergone a transformation, or, a few more braincells died< but I opened it up after pondering my qundry all last week, and the thing actually SPOKE to me by NAME. <BR/>(heh!)<BR/>Catch you saturday, I can bore you with more of this crazy realization stuff!!Ursulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13202399120717363308noreply@blogger.com