{"id":4660,"date":"2016-08-29T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2016-08-29T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T05:38:55","slug":"fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ice<\/a>
\nBy Wmpearl<\/a> – Own work<\/span>, CC0<\/a>, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=17718251<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve reached a point in a project where I can go one of two ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. go for the laughs \u2014 they’ll be earned<\/em> laughs, but laughs nonetheless (not that there’s anything wrong with laughs); or<\/li>\n
  2. go for the pathos \u2014 it’ll be painful but resonant and truthful (though painful).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Laughs are easy \u2014 at this point in development anyway (in front of an audience it’s a whole other thing). Pathos is a bit of a balancing act of grabbing an audience member’s heart and squeezing it just enough to leave an impression (and not, like, killing it).<\/p>\n

    A handy reminder at this point of development is to do what best serves the story<\/em> \u2014 except that, with this project, it’s character-driven, so it’s down to how I best serve the character<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    And if I want to serve the character to the best of my ability, then I must be honest with it, and see where that takes me.<\/p>\n

    \u2026 Well. That’s sorted, then.<\/p>\n

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    (There’s a third way, of course: I could write both versions and test-audience the shit out of them.)<\/p>\n

    (Once upon a time I wrote a post where I said characters [are] only part<\/strong> of the story I want to tell<\/a> \u2014 there’s something karmic going on here, I think.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Wmpearl – Own work, CC0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=17718251 I’ve reached a point in a project where I can go one of two ways: go for the laughs \u2014 they’ll be earned laughs, but laughs nonetheless (not that there’s anything wrong with laughs); or go for the pathos \u2014 it’ll be painful but resonant and truthful (though … <\/p>\n

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