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Designing Effective Character Growth and Change in Audio Drama All stories are about change. Time in stories can be linear or circular, but change is a given. Inevitably we think about change in terms of character and there are a variety of ways we deal with character change. Aristotle Aristotle argued that there were two […]
Eventually, as I work towards a final draft, there comes a point where I realize I’ve re-written as much as I can. I know that “art is never finished, merely abandoned” and I think the time has come to walk away from the script I’ve been pouring my heart and soul into and call it […]
Discovering character I love working on back story and developing mini-biographies for my characters as a step towards finding their voices. But while backstory and biography are useful, they will not necessarily tell me how my characters will act or help me bring them to life on their own. There are some essential decisions that […]
FORMULATING A PROFESSIONAL RESPONSE TO CRITICISM It happens to all of us who create things that we then launch out into the world in the hopes of finding an audience. We sweat and bleed for our art, struggle with the fact that nothing we ever do achieves the perfection we want it to, and then […]
This is the first in a series of scripts from the age of Old Time Radio that I have been studying as a means of learning more about the craft of radio scriptwriting. You will find the script (or transcript, if you prefer) at the beginning of this post followed by a general commentary/analysis of […]
Below we present the complete text of episode 2 of Rapunzel for Schools. Each scene is introduced with writer’s notes on the process of adapting the original fairy tale as an Audio Drama. EPISODE 3 – DESPERATE MEASURES Writer’s Notes The raising of the stakes continues (even as we move towards the point […]
The following material is copyright 2015 to Weirdworldstudios.com (all rights reserved). It is made available for educational use as is but cannot be reproduced, transmitted or otherwise shared or distributed without the owner’s written permission. Neither can this play be performed or broadcast publicly without the written permission of the owner. Below we present the […]
The following material is copyright 2015 to Weirdworldstudios.com (all rights reserved). It is made available for educational use as is but cannot be reproduced, transmitted or otherwise shared or distributed without the owner’s written permission. Neither can this play be performed or broadcast publicly without the written permission of the owner. Below we present the […]
The following material is copyright 2015 to Weirdworldstudios.com (all rights reserved). It is made available for educational use as is but cannot be reproduced, transmitted or otherwise shared or distributed without the owner’s written permission. Below you can read the story of Rapunzel as told by the Brothers Grimm. This is the story we have […]
