Chapter 10 "Writing Plays"

1. WRITING PLAYS
Chapter 10

2. The person who makes a success
of living is one who sees his goal
steadily and aims for it
unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille

3. I. Rules InWriting Plays
A. Basic Style Applies to
Several Media
B. Requires a Motivating
Ingredient

4. 1. Drama is heightened life
2. Important elements may
be reversed
C. Evolution of Writing Plays

5. D. Major Elements in the Play
Structure
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Dialogue

6. II. Seven Concepts InWriting
A Play
A. Unity
B. Plot
C. Character
D. Exposition

7. E. Preparation
F. Dialogue
G. Setting

8. III. Radio Plays
A. Theater of the Imagination
1. Place, setting,
characters unlimited
2. Narrator is a necessity
B. Script Leaves Nothing to
Chance

9. IV. Theatrical Films
A. Original Works
B. Adaptations
1. A difficult process
2. Books, stage, etc.
3. Process

10. C. Writing the Script
1. Exposition + Conflict =
Rising Action
2. Conflict + Complications =
Climax and Resolution

12. Unless you have to do
something beyond what
you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
RalphWaldo Emerson

14. If people cannot write well, they
cannot think well; if they
cannot think well, others
will do their thinking for them.
George Orwell