Ready to step your writing up a gear? Learn powerful dramatic techniques!
Are you ready to raise your writing game? Discover advanced creative writing techniques to take your fiction, drama and poetry to a new level!
Dramatic techniques are all about bold, clear, high-impact writing. Once you discover the craft concepts used by screen and stage writers to bring stories to life, you’ll never look back.
This practical guide to dramatic concepts will give you confidence in structure, plotting and character, and may even blow your mind. At the very least, you’ll kick yourself for not discovering them sooner!
I wrote fiction for years. Then I started writing scripts professionally. I was gobsmacked by how little I knew. All the craft techniques I was missing. Why? Because dramatic, prose and poetry writers move in different worlds. So they don’t share professional secrets. Things like:
- dramatic action and how to use it to drive a scene
- how to write subtext to create tension
- how to use status shifts to create more dynamic characters
- how to use objects to focus character relationships
- how to use space for impact and tension
- how transformations can make your storytelling more dynamic
- the difference between private and public settings in story dynamics
- how the ribbon of time can help tight, powerful editing
- how to use rituals to shortcut exposition
This book is packed with advanced writing craft concepts from the world of film, stage, and professional storytelling. If you want to move your writing up a gear, this is for you.
If you’ve ever wrestled with showing and telling, dramatic techniques will turbo-charge your skills. If you’ve ever written flat scenes with no tension, Dramatic Techniques will tighten the screw. If you’ve published novels for years and still aren’t seeing sales, it’s time to step up a level with this advanced, powerful writing advice.
