The greater the conflict, the less visible the exposition. Exposition.

Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: ‘What’s important is not the emotion they’re playing but the emotion they’re trying to conceal.

The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character. The.

A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a.

All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple – and complex – as that. That’s the pattern. That’s how we tell stories.

Exposition, after all, is telling and drama is showing.

... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.

What are Facebook and other social media but adverts for how we’d like to be seen?

All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.

A lack of understanding of the theory leaves you unable to differentiate between a necessary aspect of a method and an arbitrary one.