D for distance, happy we’ve got 2 more Ds?
Create a chain of events, with distance First comes the study of your characters, now it’s time to create some distance between them and their objectives. They start existing, walking, speaking, lighting a cigarette, or obsessively emptying a whole pack of gum. You started talking to them, and now...
Show me your subtext, reveal yourself
Subtext For an actor, without subtext, the script would be simple text, easy words on paper, without further explanation. Without a reason, a motivation to use a specific term instead of another, the actor would lose what is more important to make a difference in his job: the emotions...
Your dialogue is alive!
Scene and dialogue Let’s speak about dialogue. We have an idea of whom our characters are and set the scene for them; now, they speak and we got to know them better through the subtext. And what is better to uncover the subtext then a well written dialogue? So, the...
Build your tree
If you want to build your tree, start from the roots We realized that to start writing a story, making your tree grow, isn’t that easy, even having the right tools. But what is the content of your story? It comes from your everyday life, inspired by something you...
Where and when, or settings 2
Where and when? Let’s discover the 5 Ws first Now, suppose you studied journalism as I did, where and when would have a different meaning to you. In that case, it’ll come naturally to you to think about where and when, or what is happening in a story even...
The portrait
The first painting he sold. Did he sell a portrait? No, he didn’t sell anything. That was his wife job. He made a portrait, an array of futility and he hated it from the very beginning. He produced it reluctantly while his nose was bleeding, forgetting even to eat,...
The cat
A Cat’s decision “Mrs. Babu, it’s your turn to speak.” “Thank you, Woman- Chief of the Parliament of the People. I have a question for Mr Svanzoni, a rhetorical one. Why we should help those people? Do we have to do it because they’re human beings? But they’re not,...
The Parliament
The Parliament’s vote A buzzing room The 30 Members of the Parliament of the People create a buzzing sound in the small hall. It seems like many bees are working on building a wall of honey. There’s no more honey, though, but only a vast wall. A solid barrier...
Kill the aliens!
The aliens matter “Gentlemen and ladies.” Started the Head. The whole Parliament got quiet at once, for curiosity more than out of simple fear or respect for him. You could listen only to the purring of the Head’s cat. “We are here reunited today to speak about the aliens’...
Interview with the alien
An interview, that’s all we need to know them Don’t think even for a moment that all of this went fast. No, the red button of fear needed to be touched softly and the fear to grow slowly inside you, like a flower or the grass in a garden....
