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Copywriting TipsFiction Writing Lessons from Shakespeare
by:
Wendy Woudstra
Common proposal
in all fields of study is for the student to take lessons from a master. Unluckily for those who will to write fiction -- either in plays or stories -- the most celebrated and highest authority in the art of fiction-making is long dead.
Few would-be argue William Shakespeare's domination in the art of creating a compelling story. And since he ne'er
wrote, "Will Shakespeare's Manual to Writing Great Stories," if we are to discover from this master, we must draw lessons from his works.
The following would-be seem to be the cardinal elements the Bard would-be likely include in his manual for writers:
1) You must have a story to tell.
2) Your story must introduce us to extraordinary people; not impossible people, but characters whose circumstances and lives are able to engender powerful interest.
3) Your story must be thoroughly developed and told with consumate skill.
4) The amosphere of actual human life must be so artfully adorned over all the scenes that we feel it, breathe it, and live in it piece we read.
5) Every element of your story must be ascribable to the sources of human passion, aspiration, credulity, fancy, faith or manners. Nothing in it must be untrue to the universal human possibilities; but each dramati crisis must turn on several extraordinary conjunction. The commonplace must not be preponderate.
6) There must be absolute dramatic vision; without this the novel is a mere tale, the drama a mere play, the painting a lifeless transcript, the music a empty tinkle, the sculpture a form without suggestion.
7) Last comes style, which is the final stamp of the parsonality of genius. There is no such thing as a materpiece without the presence of this indestructible preservative.
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