Writing for emotional impact : advanced dramatic techniques to attract, engage, and fascinate the reader from beginning to end
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004UC6E22 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 230 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now, he breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader. There are three kinds of feelings when reading a story – boredom, interest, and WOW! To become a successful writer you must create the WOW! Feeling on as many pages as possible, and this requires writing that engages the reader emotionally. Karl not only encourages you to deliver emotional impact on as many pages as possible, he shows you how, offering you hundreds of dramatic techniques to take your writing to the professional level.. In his best-selling 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, screenwriter Karl Iglesias explored the working habits of A-list Hollywood scribes. Based on his acclaimed classes at UCLA Extension, Writing for Emotional Impact goes beyond the basics and argues that Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows
Karl Iglesias is a screenwriter and sought-after script doctor specializing in the reader's emotional response to the written page. He is the author of "Writing for Emotional Impact" and a contributor to the anthology, "Now Write! Screenwriting". . He teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, where he was named Outstanding Instructor in Screenwriting in 2010
-- Scr(i)pt Magazine-Mar./Apr. 2006. provides plenty of techniques, including the most comprehensive and practical discussion on dialogue that I have seen
S. W. Lewis said What's Wrong With Easy Answers?. We tend to make esoteric things harder than they are. But the art of writing is really very Zen-like: You get to a point where you realize you were making things needlessly difficult.This book does give easy answers to difficult questions, and as you read you'll discover several slap-your-forehead moments, those wonderful moments of recognition when this book's content jibes with your own instinct. You'll discover that you had the answers all along.It's hard being a writer. Most of us w. An interesting perspective to write from This book is about how to create emotional reactions in the audience.I liked it and read it two or three times. Many of the suggestions belong to techniques used in Hollywood (by writers and directors) to stir emotional responses.Some ideas might be catalogued within the cliche section. For example, if you want the public to like your character then put a scene in which your character is nice to a puppy or to children. The fact is that many movies use this technique, I know because sinc. A Gem of a Book I teach writing classes online -- from month-long classes on different aspects of craft to intensive eight-week classes on novel writing. I bought this book because of its title. I have long been a proponent of the theory that the only reason we read or go to the movies is for the emotional connection that is made. This was the best $20 I ever spent. Iglesias explains emotional impact, both its importance, and the techniques you can use to create it and/or enhance it in language and exa