You know that last scene before commercials that makes you hang around. There’s also a thing called an “act out” in TV writing. Every scene-you’re going to get something. My books are very plot heavy in that way. There just can’t be a scene where a character’s walking down the street admiring the trees. Every scene has to push the story forward. So, at this point, you only have like forty-two minutes for an entire show. So how does your screenwriting background impact your fiction? He said that exact same thing about questions driving each act. By the end of each act, each question is answered, but the answer raises a new question. This comes from my screenwriting background. What I try and do is have a question for each act. But I have horrible handwriting, so I will type it up into a document on the computer. KG: I have a journal I do free thought in. I use a three-act structure, and I throw the third act out every time when I finally get around to writing it.ĮC: Take me through your outline process. Once I have the character, and I have the murder, then I outline. I just need to know the basis of her personality. I don’t need to know everything about her. I write first person, so obviously that’s the person I need to understand best. Kellye Garrett: I figure my main character out.
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