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...immerse your reader in that world.” And Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 compares feature writing to “matching up the sound track and the visual track while watching a movie,” where the soundtrack is “an idea plot?? and the visual is “the movement of the characters through a series of dramatic events in memorable settings.” “Telling True Stories” is a helpful guide to have around your desk—or, once you settle...
Most appalling of all is that the second half of the book and movie’s plot??Rob’s revisiting of his top five, all-time, desert island breakups—is condensed into one weak scene and approximately 30 seconds of musical interlude, during a song sung by the apparition of Bruce Springsteen. Hornby meditates on the nature of male self-centeredness and inability to grow up; Kitt and lyricist Amanda Green’s score simply lulls the audience into a bored stupor. (Quite literally, my date for the evening fell asleep before...
...Okay, so the chick-lit plot??s not exactly Natalie Krinsky’s “Chloe Does Yale” or Nick McDonell ’06’s “Twelve.” There are barely any drugs, the narrator is more concerned with drinking Diet Coke than selling cocaine, and over the course of 200 pages, there is only one “fuck,” one “kiss,” and one imaginary handjob...
...based TV cop shows. The script juggles the main love story with numerous subplots—including one about a comical obsession with killing a mockingbird—to keep the audience from getting bored. But even the most naïve viewer can guess every point in the plot??Can Tripp commit? Will Paula admit her true feelings for him?—because it’s all been done before. Clear parallels are easy to draw between this movie and “How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days...
...will mistake Crichton, who was also a Crimson editor, for a literary genius, but we can often be too hasty in dismissing the mass paperback masters as bad storytellers and writers. We forget that successfully crafting a compelling plot??weaving together the twists and unleashing unexpected intersections—is a difficult task on par with understanding Faulkner...