Comments on: SG1 Series Part Three: Action & Dialogue http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: SG1 Series Part Two: Character Development » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-16857 SG1 Series Part Two: Character Development » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:19:00 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-16857 [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...] [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...]

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]]> By: SG1 Series Part One: Story-Arc, Plot and SubPlot » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-16852 SG1 Series Part One: Story-Arc, Plot and SubPlot » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:05:48 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-16852 [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...] [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...]

]]> By: SG1 Series Part Four: Hooks, Hangers and the Sequence of Events » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-16845 SG1 Series Part Four: Hooks, Hangers and the Sequence of Events » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:49:58 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-16845 [...] episode of Stargate starts where the action is. I mentioned the importance of action in Part Three: Action and Dialogue so you already have some idea what makes action/showing (involving the senses) an effective way to [...] [...] episode of Stargate starts where the action is. I mentioned the importance of action in Part Three: Action and Dialogue so you already have some idea what makes action/showing (involving the senses) an effective way to [...]

]]> By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-242 Rebecca Laffar-Smith Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:32:57 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-242 Thank you so much Nannette. I am certainly going to guest for you and I have all the details you send me. If only I could carve out the time. Why are there never enough hours in the day? :-) I'm glad you enjoy my blog. Feel free to drop a line to let me know if there is anything you'd like to read more about or have a guest post of your own to offer. Thank you so much Nannette. I am certainly going to guest for you and I have all the details you send me. If only I could carve out the time. Why are there never enough hours in the day? :-) I’m glad you enjoy my blog. Feel free to drop a line to let me know if there is anything you’d like to read more about or have a guest post of your own to offer.

]]> By: Nannette Croce http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-243 Nannette Croce Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:11:18 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-243 Hi Rebecca, I found your site through your link to my piece on Roses & Thorns. It will take me ages to go through all the great information you have here. What a useful site. I hope you'll consider guesting for us. Hi Rebecca,

I found your site through your link to my piece on Roses & Thorns. It will take me ages to go through all the great information you have here. What a useful site. I hope you’ll consider guesting for us.

]]> By: Writer’s Round-About » Blog Archive » SG1 Series Part Two: Character Development http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-241 Writer’s Round-About » Blog Archive » SG1 Series Part Two: Character Development Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:48:31 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-241 [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...] [...] SG1 Series Part Three: Action and Dialogue [...]

]]> By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-233 Rebecca Laffar-Smith Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:22:56 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-233 Thank you, Kate. I'm glad you enjoyed this entry. Sometimes what we learn is so basic that it seems insignificant but it's amazing how much dispute has errupted over the "Show, don't tell" concept. Beginning writers feel like it means they can't ever tell which is ineffective. It's the careful balance that creates the most compelling stories. I haven't had a chance to see Moonlight (I don't think it's out in Australia yet). I can't imagine why they'd feel like they need to preempt all her action with internal monologue. In a way it defeats the showing aspect completely if she's shown to think about it all first. And who does that anyway? Do we really run a conversation in our head plotting out every detail about the action we're about to take? I certainly don't. But perhaps I'm rather compulsive. Perhaps it's worth writing a letter to the producers to express your concerns with that aspect of the series. I wonder how their writers/producers would handle critique from fellow writers. Thanks again for reading and I hope you'll continue to enjoy The Writer's Round-About. Thank you, Kate. I’m glad you enjoyed this entry. Sometimes what we learn is so basic that it seems insignificant but it’s amazing how much dispute has errupted over the “Show, don’t tell” concept. Beginning writers feel like it means they can’t ever tell which is ineffective. It’s the careful balance that creates the most compelling stories.

I haven’t had a chance to see Moonlight (I don’t think it’s out in Australia yet). I can’t imagine why they’d feel like they need to preempt all her action with internal monologue. In a way it defeats the showing aspect completely if she’s shown to think about it all first. And who does that anyway? Do we really run a conversation in our head plotting out every detail about the action we’re about to take? I certainly don’t. But perhaps I’m rather compulsive. Perhaps it’s worth writing a letter to the producers to express your concerns with that aspect of the series. I wonder how their writers/producers would handle critique from fellow writers.

Thanks again for reading and I hope you’ll continue to enjoy The Writer’s Round-About.

]]> By: Kate Boddie http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-234 Kate Boddie Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:08:20 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-234 A very well thought out piece and very informative not just for beginning writers but for all writers. Showing as opposed to telling is pivitol when writing a story although nothing but one or the other is never good. A delicate balance of the two could make the story go a long way without being inundated in descriptive text or flat telling (to use extremes). Your notion, I think, can be applied to to most anything we see on screen. Actually, I think it's one of the reasons why I don't like the show Moonlight. The internal monologue of the female lead is just annoying and most of the time downright redundant. She thinks what she's going to do just before she does what she just thought of doing. It's not giving the viewer enough credit to deduce such a notion on their own. Anyway, excellent piece! A very well thought out piece and very informative not just for beginning writers but for all writers. Showing as opposed to telling is pivitol when writing a story although nothing but one or the other is never good. A delicate balance of the two could make the story go a long way without being inundated in descriptive text or flat telling (to use extremes). Your notion, I think, can be applied to to most anything we see on screen. Actually, I think it’s one of the reasons why I don’t like the show Moonlight. The internal monologue of the female lead is just annoying and most of the time downright redundant. She thinks what she’s going to do just before she does what she just thought of doing. It’s not giving the viewer enough credit to deduce such a notion on their own. Anyway, excellent piece!

]]> By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html#comment-232 Rebecca Laffar-Smith Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:51:00 +0000 http://www.writersroundabout.com/2007/12/sg1-series-part-three-action-dialogue.html/#comment-232 Thanks Wordsmith. I hope you got some rest. :-) Thanks Wordsmith. I hope you got some rest. :-)

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