Shoptalk for precision writers
A play is a machine, one that manufactures meaning. It’s a staggeringly complex machine, and many of its moving parts are invisible to the untrained eye, but it is a machine nonetheless, and it operates on certain principles that have gone essentially unchanged for thousands of years.
Readers are like killers in cop shows: you can’t catch them until you know how they think. We should be able to ask them directly... but knowing that you like something is very different from knowing why you like something. So let's do some psychological profiling instead, to reverse-engineer a readership by breaking down the MOs of their favorite stories.
Asking questions like:
- Why does "The Grunt" dream about a suit of power armor?
- "The Nemesis" loved
The Woman King , but notThe Northman : what ingredients from theBraveheart formula made the difference? - What does "The Superman" want with a Fortress of Solitude, and what's it have to do with his heat vision?
PlotSimmer
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