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Screenwriting
Alternative to Flashback For Exposition
I have a guy going home again (despite Thomas Wolfe's discouraging entreaty).
I need to develop a subplot that originated in my hero's past and haunts him in the present. Since the entire main plot occurs in three day period in the present, it would be disjunctive to present the past scenes in real time. This kind of leaves a flashback sequence as the obvious way I can see to lay the foundation for the subplot. Exposition will require some dialouge.
Any other ways to do it?
I need to develop a subplot that originated in my hero's past and haunts him in the present. Since the entire main plot occurs in three day period in the present, it would be disjunctive to present the past scenes in real time. This kind of leaves a flashback sequence as the obvious way I can see to lay the foundation for the subplot. Exposition will require some dialouge.
Any other ways to do it?
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Any strange emails, Paul?
- Any strange emails, Paul?
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[nq:1]Any strange emails, Paul?[/nq]
Taking the 5th, realizing you've already distroyed your credibility?
Taking the 5th, realizing you've already distroyed your credibility?
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[nq:2]Any strange emails, Paul?[/nq]
[nq:1]Taking the 5th, realizing you've already distroyed your credibility?[/nq]
Make that "destroyed."
Where is the weird email, Paul?!?!
Produce the evidence!
[nq:1]Taking the 5th, realizing you've already distroyed your credibility?[/nq]
Make that "destroyed."
Where is the weird email, Paul?!?!
Produce the evidence!
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[nq:1]I have a guy going home again (despite Thomas Wolfe's discouraging entreaty). I need to develop a subplot that originated ... in three day period in the present, it would be disjunctive to present the past scenes in real time. [/nq]
If he's going home, it seems like running into a friend/ lover from the past - one who drops hints, or he gets nostalgic with - in a wary way - could show a
If he's going home, it seems like running into a friend/ lover from the past - one who drops hints, or he gets nostalgic with - in a wary way - could show a
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[nq:2]I have a guy going home again (despite Thomas Wolfe's ... will require some dialouge. Any other ways to do it?[/nq]
[nq:1]If he's going home, it seems like running into a friend/ lover from the past - one who drops hints, ... �He goes back to the scene of the crime, and runs into someone he knows - finesse it from there.[/nq]
Much better not to have flashbacks (as a rule, I know th
[nq:1]If he's going home, it seems like running into a friend/ lover from the past - one who drops hints, ... �He goes back to the scene of the crime, and runs into someone he knows - finesse it from there.[/nq]
Much better not to have flashbacks (as a rule, I know th
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Open with the past, then give us one of them "Ten Years Later" cards.
Hopefully the event that haunts your protag is tied to the story you are telling - so maybe you can just skip the past and focus on the present.
- Bill
Hopefully the event that haunts your protag is tied to the story you are telling - so maybe you can just skip the past and focus on the present.
- Bill
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[nq:1]Open with the past, then give us one of them "Ten Years Later" cards. Hopefully the event that haunts your protag is tied to the story you are telling - so maybe you can just skip the past and focus on the present.[/nq]
I think Paul is busy looking for some "weird" email to substantiate a "smear campaign" flashback scene.
I think Paul is busy looking for some "weird" email to substantiate a "smear campaign" flashback scene.
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[nq:1]I have a guy going home again (despite Thomas Wolfe's discouraging entreaty). I need to develop a subplot that originated ... occurs in three day period in the present, it would be disjunctive to present the past scenes in real time.[/nq]
Fill me in. All wiki has on disjunctive is relating to a personal pronoun.
[nq:1]This kind of leaves a flashback sequence as the obvious way I can
Fill me in. All wiki has on disjunctive is relating to a personal pronoun.
[nq:1]This kind of leaves a flashback sequence as the obvious way I can
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Paul is busy looking for my "weird" email! This and other internet rumors debunked at: www.stopsmearingpink.com
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[nq:1]Much better not to have flashbacks (as a rule, I know there are brilliant exceptions). Let us wonder what happened back them, and let us learn it slowly.[/nq]
Sometimes movies are ruined because the writer (or someone in the movie-making process) decides they have to explain *everything.* I think a lot of the back story should stay there, in the background. It's what gives your character
Sometimes movies are ruined because the writer (or someone in the movie-making process) decides they have to explain *everything.* I think a lot of the back story should stay there, in the background. It's what gives your character
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