Drama, as you know from high school, can be defined as an exciting series of events. Writers know that definition to be woefully inadequate. Stringing together a series of events, no matter how scintillating, death-defying, or fantastic, can amount to a big ol’ bag o’ dull unless those events are dramatizing meaningful story points.
Writers also know the pain of rewriting to someone else’s notes when those notes are event-based and miss the underlying motion of the story. But there’s hope! We can more effectively discuss how to handle revisions by grabbing firm hold of the purpose of each scene and relating its crux to the real story events as they unfold.
So, like, what’s all the drama?
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