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Pace and scene setting

Posted on 29 March 2025 by jerrydunne604@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2025 Jerry Dunne If you are not familiar with The play’s 3-act plot arc structure and The scene’s plot arc structure, it might be a good idea to read those posts before reading this one. Pace concerns how … Continue reading →

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The play’s 3-act plot arc structure

Posted on 28 November 2024 by jerrydunne604@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2023 Jerry Dunne The plot isn’t a series of events that move forward in a random way. The events are connected by cause and effect and have a very definite structure to them. The three fundamental building blocks … Continue reading →

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The plan: a bird’s eye view (for drama)

Posted on 28 November 2024 by jerrydunne604@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2023 Jerry Dunne Before reading this post it is a good idea to read The play’s 3-act plot arc structure and The scene’s plot arc structure, if you do not understand the 3-act plot arc structure. This plot … Continue reading →

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The trickiness of writing the children’s short story (for the middle reader)

Posted on 25 November 2024 by jerrydunne604@hotmail.com

Copyright © 2014 Jerry Dunne Short story writing is a hard discipline just like all the other fiction crafts. But I suggest here that it is trickier to master more so than a novel, though it is much shorter than … Continue reading →

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