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Learning from Aristotle – The Poetics of Aristotle Applied to Audio Drama – Part 3

Today, I’m only travelling a short distance through Aristotle’s poetics. He is again presenting us with a series of definitions, but these definitions are highly practical (at least until we get to book XII which, I think, can be skipped without any real loss occurring). If we use these definitions as a guide, we gain […]

Learning from Aristotle – The Poetics of Aristotle Applied to Audio Drama – Part 2

Here we are taking a look at the next 5 sections of Aristotle’s poetics. As I stated last time, I’m working through Aristotle’s Poetics in an attempt to figure out why, even today, he is pointed to by script-writers as a guiding light in the production of drama. He is wordy, and often difficult to […]

Learning from Aristotle – The Poetics of Artistotle applied to Audio Drama (Part 1)

This is a rambling exploration of Aristotle’s guide to understanding and writing drama (as applied to audio drama) that began as a set of personal notes on Artistotle’s little book “The Poetics”, but, as I wrote, turned into a one-sided imaginary address to other writers, who like myself, are interested in figuring out why script-writing […]

Word Choices for Audio Dramatists

Cliché and curiosity-quenching prose are the twin enemies of the writer of good dialog.  And first drafts are often filled with both.  Cliché is the Enemy Because we are saturated with story, conversation, prose, poetry, and music lyrics, etc., our attempts at writing (at least in the first draft) are prone to include dull, conventional, […]

Communicating Exposition in Audio Drama Script Writing

EXPOSITION I’ve been thinking about exposition in audio drama lately and thought I’d take a moment to sum up some of the conclusions I’ve reached regarding how to deliver it.  ON THE NOSE EXPOSITION Exposition is incredibly easy to get wrong – something I have proved in my own writing more than I’d like to […]

The Deaf Writer’s guide to sound and silence (Part 2) – constructing and cueing sound effects – what the writer needs to know.

Once again, I am, in my overlong and wordy way, wading into an area of Audio drama that, as a person who has significant hearing loss, I probably don’t belong.  As with my last article on the topic of sound and silence, these aren’t hills I’m particularly committed to dying on – merely thoughts and […]

The Deaf Writer’s Guide to Sound and Silence in Audio Drama

As a person who has a hearing loss (deaf in one ear) I always feel a little awkward sharing thoughts on sound.  After all, there are whole bands of sound-frequencies that I can’t detect that are available to everyone else, so who am I to express an opinion?  However, my inability to detect certain pitches, […]

Trouble with Time – Flashbacks and Event Order in Audio Script Writing

In previous essays, I’ve mentioned that I’ve had to learn that unnecessary backstory should be dispensed with in the interests of getting to the story-proper as quickly as possible. I’ve also talked about the need to judiciously seed the backstory throughout my plays (at the moments when they become most relevant). Flashbacks This week I’ve […]

Bad Beginnings – Unnecessary Prologue

I seem to be getting rather confessional lately. In part, it’s because I realize, as a school-teacher, that my screw-ups are often more helpful to students than my successes. In my early days of writing (and as I hit a patch later on where I started to get a little over wordy) I was inclined […]

Writing the hook

One of the weaknesses in my writing that has been brought to my attention recently has been a tendency to blow the hook. The hook is the opening of the script that aims to capture and keep the attention of the audience. Attention spans are getting shorter. Whatever the reason (and everything from television to […]

Conceptualizing the story

Some thoughts on what comes before the story I am, as I have noted elsewhere, a fan of structure.  Not because I feel I must slavishly follow every convention of structure, but because, frankly, I write better when I keep the elements of Structure in mind. Structures Three Act Structure, for all the hate it […]

Increase Immersion with Four Narrative Techniques (and a Fifth Tip that Matters Just for Audio Drama)

Four Narrative Techniques that Increase Immersion (and a Fifth Tip that Matters Just for Audio Drama) Are you looking for some suggestions on how to increase the immersion created by the stories you tell?  Some simple ways to bring your scripts to life in the minds of your audience? The following are some ideas/techniques, borrowed […]

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