Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
During a harsh winter, a frontiersman with a violent past must protect the family he?s taking refuge with from an unscrupulous company that wants their land.
It seems to me that the battle against the forces of winter in the "Great Die-Up" is a more interesting story.? ?And authentic.? ?Winter time in the northern plains in 1886-1187 was the worst time for anyone to be out and about for any reason other than to try to save their livestock.? It was too daRead more
It seems to me that the battle against the forces of winter in the “Great Die-Up” is a more interesting story.? ?And authentic.? ?Winter time in the northern plains in 1886-1187 was the worst time for anyone to be out and about for any reason other than to try to save their livestock.? It was too damn cold and the snow was too damn deep.? The Bad Guys would wait until the spring thaw to do their mischief.
See lessIn 1977, a reformed ex-con, desperate to pay for his mother?s hospital bill, returns to his old life of drug dealing but soon learns the game has changed and the players are more ruthless than before.
What? the premise for "Breaking Bad" had going for it that elevated above other stories about drug dealing was a strong character arc.? Over the course of the series, the protagonist does a complete 180, transforms from a law abiding, milquetoast, under paid chemistry teacher who gets no? respect frRead more
What? the premise for “Breaking Bad” had going for it that elevated above other stories about drug dealing was a strong character arc.? Over the course of the series, the protagonist does a complete 180, transforms from a law abiding, milquetoast, under paid chemistry teacher who gets no? respect from anyone into a ruthless, rich and cunning drug lord, feared by all.
There is no 180 character arc in this story.? The character just back slides a few degrees into his old ways.
See lessA lawyer unwittingly frees and later marries a guilty man. Now she?ll stop at nothing to see him convicted of a murder he didn?t commit.
Let me unpack the story as I understand it:A lawyer helps a client beat a murder rap believing her client to be innocent [back story or opening setup].Only to discover new and compelling evidence that he actually he did the crime [inciting incident].But because? of the Constitutional guarantee againRead more
Let me unpack the story as I understand it:
A lawyer helps a client beat a murder rap believing her client to be innocent [back story or opening setup].
Only to discover new and compelling evidence that he actually he did the crime [inciting incident].
But because? of the Constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy, he can’t be retried [complication].
So she conspires to bring him “to justice” by a false charge of murder [plot].
Well, why not cut to the chase? She decides to murder him herself.? Get “street justice”.
The dramatic challenge for you as the writer is: how to make the audience at least empathize with her motives? Well,? I suggest that one way is the nature of his crime.? It can’t have been an impulsive crime of passion, done in a moment of anger (and under the influence of, say, alcohol).? Rather, his original crime has to have been premeditated and heinous,? say an act of prolonged painful torture on a helpless woman while she was alive, and depravity upon her body after she was dead.? ?In this way the narrative can sell? an audience on street justice emotionally? as justified even if logically they know otherwise. (There are any number of movies and crime novels that resolve the story with street justice.)
fwiw
See less