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Week 1 Day 2: What did you learn?
You’ve watched today’s scene and read the group’s insights. Then you rewrote a scene/character using those insights.
Tell us what you learned by taking those steps!
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<div>I couldn’t decide which of two scenes to use for a rewrite with my new insights. One was an introductory scene with lots of dialog. The other was an action scene without much dialog (respectively). I wasn’t sure that the dialog-heavy scene lent itself very well to rewriting it, that might reflect my being stuck. But given that we’ve just met these characters, I fussed some trying to apply the techniques of Good Will Hunting which, in retrospect, were pretty well done and actually pretty obvious. Although applying those lessons to my own writing seems elusive.</div><div>
So I tried to alter my action scene and found myself delving into wordsmithing, which Hal describes as “NOT what we’re doing here”. So I’m a little stuck, I will go on to the next lesson and continue to contemplate how to achieve this depth. But right now it’s elusive as hell.
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Insight: the gal is being told of her future fights by a guy who is either her son or a friend of her son. She is being warned. My rewrite is about being told of the future by some scary insight, rather than a time traveller.
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What I learned is to
layer the importance of the successor so the future of the world hangs in
the balance, making the actions of the predecessor just as important to the
world. In brief, Increase the stakes by layering. -
What I learned rewriting my character/scene?
I learned it is essential to know my ending, or at least have a good idea how the story will culminate (the future). This lends itself to extensively brainstorming appropriate possibilities to figure out a suitable ending. Then to reach the desired endpoint there has to be plants early in the story which lead to the subsequent reveals; this makes the script tight and a more cohesive piece.
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