Drawn to Life - Volume 2

27 Drawings Ain’t Just Drawing

A writer of ction or lm scripts must be highly skilled in the art of storytelling; how to develop and further the plot by use of characterization, dialog, action, locale, emotion, etc. All of those things must be interwoven and revealed at the proper time so the reader is whisked along through the story with as little intellectual discomfort as possible. Present day prose must move along at a respectable twentieth (almost twenty-rst) century pace. Contemporary writers can’t mess around with long and boring (even if well written) explanatory passages, descriptions, and meandering dialog. Every word has to be carefully chosen. One single sentence may have to describe the character, the locale, the reason for being ...