Host Your Own Old Time Radio Drama
Drama for the dinner table
Universal Style for Audio Writers Strunk and White’s little pamphlet on style has been in use for decades and provides helpful principles for writers. Their guide is a classic and is full of useful advice. The advice should be followed judiciously, however. Sometimes characterisation requires us to break these rules (some characters are meant to […]
This week we turn our attention to the practical use of grammar and how understanding it can help improve our writing. Sentence Types Declarative – Makes a statement about something. Interrogatory – Asks a question. Imperative – Provides an instruction. Exclamatory – Makes an exclamation. The following exchange contains each of these. But in any […]
This continues my series on the basics of grammar for audio writers. We looked, in the last essay, at the traditional parts of speech and some ways that understanding them helps us to diagnose problems in our scripts. This week we are looking at some other ways to think about and classify words. Simple, compound […]
A while back I was looking at Aristotle’s poetics and thinking about how they applied to audio drama writing. I worked my way through the first 19 chapters and then came to a grinding halt. The 20th chapter was about grammar – specifically ancient Greek grammar. Besides being irrelevant (since its discussion concerned a language […]
