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OVERTONES

In our example of the two lawyers we end with their conflict unresolved, but that doesn’t mean that such a story is pointless.  We return to the same place, but with a much fuller understanding.  When we were young we believed that every question had an answer, every problem a solution.  As adults we realize [...]

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Let’s look at a long hypothetical example (see Figure 2). We start with three horizontal boxes. I’m gong to purposely use the most common plot formula.  Each box represents a different scene.  In the first let’s put “woman loves man.”  In box two we’ll mark, “woman loses man.”  Box three is, of course, “woman gets [...]

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Writers Live Twice

That’s the allegory of the private screening room.  But let me add one observation.  Physical things within dreams exist in a different way than they do in real life, but the emotions we feel are the same real emotions we feel for actual events.  Opening ourselves to these feelings–of which we are very protective in [...]

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