SCRP 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Illogic, The Last Leaf, Schecter Guitar Research
6 Feb 2019
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10/18 (week 4) expressive verbs delete all sequence words. The man goggles pov: what he is goggling out instead of the man reacts to blah blah blah. Every element of a character has to match and fit together. Building characters: being able to imagine, give distinctive patterns of behavior, mickey buying newspaper example, doctor lying in unused patient bed. 10 rules for writing great dialogue: make it sound like the way people talk (x10) **use your knowledge of the world, humanity, people** Word choice and attitude: that is not going to happen. that"s not gonna happen . Be aware of high context vs low context. It is sweet and proper to die for one"s country . Something not of his own volition will jolt him out of the rut he"s in. Ex victoria is cut off from all basic humanity. Jolted, hero tries to make sense of new reality. Ex kidnapped by nazis, shown wonders of frankenstein"s lab.
