On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:52:42 -0700 Betty Ragan ragan@sdc.org writes:
Ashton7@aol.com wrote:
Exactly! That was my point. You can't write a short story or a
novel the same
way that a script is written. You can attempt to make the story
"visual," in
a sense, but if you try to duplicate a script, you're going to end
up with a
badly written piece of fiction.
If anyone's read the couple of 'new' Agatha Christy novels ("Black Coffee" and something else I forget), they do this a little. There supposed to be adaptations of scripts she wrote, and the characters seem to say things that fit a play but that Christy would normally have left in narration in her books.
It can be hard to write when a character's tendencies don't match the author's. A lot of Avon's conversation is supposed to be the briefest route possible to convey the full weight of his scorn, wit, and lack of desire to continue the conversation. Not recommended to the faint of heart or, alas, the long of wind.
Ellynne
Ellynne
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