Week Five: Style, Archetype, Symbol.
Style comes from word-choice: strong verbs and concrete nouns. Archetypes link your characters to their mythic ancestors. Symbols come from concrete nouns canonized by repetition, need, emotion, sweat, and careful placement.
A key scene marks acts, openings, closings, curtains rising and falling, turning points, drama. In the novel and the filmscript, there are seven key scenes: Page One and After, Plot Point One, Midpoint, Plot Point Two, Climax, Ending, and First Encounter.
To follow the course, Rewriting 101, Spring 2011, which you can duplicate for your own story, at your own pace, try running the sequence from beginning to end, one entry a day, week by week. If you find the process useful, drop us a comment. Good luck, good writing.
Rewriting 101: Your Novel, Your Script, Your Writer’s Brain
Place: Hugo House, Spring Term, 2011
Time: Wednesdays, 4-6pm starting April 6 and ending May 11.
To rewrite a novel or a film script, you fix the subplots.
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