Posts tagged: setup

Get characters dumped. While you'd sit in your pants all day, crying into a tub of budget ice cream and violently agreeing with everything that Jeremy Kyle has to say, fictional protagonists have a different take. You only see misery, but they see potential for greatness.

The Guardian, Newspaper 30/9/10

10/2/10, 2:15pm SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fy19C61i FILED UNDER: #social network  #facebook  #characters  #romance  #character  #obstacle  #setup  #inciting incident  Bookmark and Share
State your intention right away. If it’s a comedy, the biggest laugh you need is page one. If it’s a thriller, make me lean forwards on the first line.
7/27/10, 11:18am SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-Fypbk1d FILED UNDER: #Genre  #tone  #comedy  #thriller  #action  #setup  #first act  #hook  Bookmark and Share
Write on the nose. Sometimes, often if it's a pay off.
  • Kat:

    Zoe, come here -

  • Zoe:

    No, I'm fed up with you picking on me all the time.

  • Kat:

    I'm not picking on ya!

  • Zoe:

    Embarrassing me in front of everyone

  • Kat:

    Just listen to me, will ya?

  • Zoe:

    I'm going, there ain't nothing you can do about it.

  • Kat:

    You wanna bet? We'll go and ask dad together shall we, see who he listens to?

  • Zoe:

    Why don't you just leave me alone?

  • Kat:

    Because you're not going -

  • Zoe:

    Yes I am! Get away from me.

  • Kat:

    No.

  • Zoe:

    You don't rule my life.

  • Kat:

    You're not going to Spain and that's that.

  • Zoe:

    Why not?

  • Kat:

    Because I said so, alright?

  • Zoe:

    And I have to do everything you say, do I?

  • Kat:

    No -

  • Zoe:

    You can't tell me what to do, you ain't my mother!

  • Kat:

    Yes I am!

6/26/10, 12:45am SHORT URL: http://tmblr.co/ZPK-FyhuO54 FILED UNDER: #character,  #dialogue  #payoff  #setup  #on the nose  #exposition  Bookmark and Share