thread: 2006-02-20 : Open House: Ask a Frequent Question, pt 2
On 2006-07-07, Vincent wrote:
Fuddy-dud, yeah.
Reading The Art of Dramatic Writing worked for me. I'd been in serious conversation with Ron for a year and I was just beginning to figure it out. Egri made a bridge for me between what Ron was saying about roleplaying on this hand, and my grounding in fiction on the other. A two-way bridge: now I could see how to get the awesome stuff I'd written into my fiction in my games, and now (at last) I could see where my fiction was weak - I could see what my old teachers had been talking about, and I could also see why this section of my novel didn't move me the way this other section did.
I'm not going to generalize and say that reading The Art of Dramatic Writing will do that for everyone. It seems pretty circumstantial to me. Maybe even coincidental - but circumstantial at best.
