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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.2
EAN num: 9780325000534
ISBN number: 0325000530
Label: Heinemann Drama
Manufacturer: Heinemann Drama
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 236
Printing Date: February 15, 2001
Publishing house: Heinemann Drama
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Studio: Heinemann Drama
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Solving Your Script is a hardheaded approach to solving technical problems in scripts. In down-to-earth chapters, award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Sweet introduces tools enabling writers to:- write exposition using the future tense
- make characters vivid even before they appear
- find the idiosyncrasies in a character that will generate story
Each chapter includes a discusion of a particular technique, followed by an assignment from Sweet's workshop and scenes written by his colleagues and students. There are also detailed discussions of what works in the scenes, what is problematic, and why.
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A good book to help with dialogue training and implementation. Explains and shows quite a lot of depth and understanding of how to set up your dialogue and how to deliver the lines so that your characters don't trip over their feet or sound flat and therefore unbelieveable.
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...is the one that actually addresses what you do when you write.
Jeffrey Sweet, in his Dramatist's Toolkit, looked at what playwrights actually do when they are writing, but spent a relatively short time with each subject. Solving Your Script is a wonder, taking those ideas and going into them in depth. Sweet presents, for each topic, some discussion, an example from his own scripts, an exercise, and then several annotated responses to the exercises. Often, Sweet will teach as much in the notes for each exercise as in the rest of the book.
Each lesson is an invaluable aid in the method of creating not a play - Sweet does very little by way of play discusion - but a scene. The book looks at ways to generate and bring out conflicts between and within characters, how to actually craft scenes that will captivate your audience. This is such a fresh and useful approach that I do not think that there is a peer to Solving Your Script. The only book to come close is Michael Wright's worthy Playwriting in Process.
Everybody's got an opinion on play structure and how you ought to write your play and what should be at the center of it. There are a lot of prescriptivist texts on playwriting out there. The formula books, of which there are many, will at best frustrate you and at worst help you to turn out a formulaic, forgettable play. Sweet's book will help you refine your dramatic skills. Buy this along with his Dramatist's Toolkit and Wright's Playwriting in Process for a trifecta of tools for honing your playwriting instincts.
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I've read several books that explained how to follow the three-act structure in writing a movie or play.
But Jeff Sweet's books include specific ideas writers can use to improve their work line by line.
Negotiation over objects, the power of the unspoken word and violation of rituals are some of the devices Sweet explores in his book.
Each idea is amply illustrated with scenes written by students which are accompanied by Sweet's comments.
This book will enable you to improve your work as a playwright/screenwriter.
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Jeff's book is a welcome and helpful addition to a playwright's library. It's a book that I refer to often. It's a great companion to The Dramatists' Toolkit.
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I didn't think Jeffrey Sweet could top The Dramatist's Toolkit, which is full of insightful analyses of well known plays and related advice to playwrights. Solving Your Script is equally engaging and useful. It comes at the subject of playwriting from another perspective. It, too, is full of advice, but it also offers not just writing exercises, but samples of completed exercises with detailed critiques. I admire the practical, specific ideas in both of Sweet's books, and I recommend them both.
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