ENG 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stock Character
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Stories need things: sound, character, mood/atmosphere, dialogue, diction, cut most exposition, create scenes, find opportunities for reflection. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. : frame everything we know and do, creates purpose and meaning, own life as a story, told in obituary. How stories move: conflict: begins in exposition and conflict intro"d, conflict shown/implied immediately, conflict: source of tension/trouble that will cause the main character to change. Activate your story: a, stock character; common social/literary stereotype, move through events, each carries equal weights, presented chronologically and ploddingly over scope of day. Plotting trouble: needs character in trouble, w/o conflict, there is no story.
