Ep 30: Drama vs. Melodrama - The Every Day Novelist

jdsawyer Nanocast December 3, 2015 December 3, 2015

At the very end of your book, you’ll discover whether you’ve written a drama or a melodrama–and that will dictate how you wrap it all up.

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After a childhood in academia, J. Daniel Sawyer declared his independence by dropping out of high school and setting off on a series of adventures in the bowels of the film industry, the venture capital culture of silicon valley, surfing safaris, bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, adventurers, climbers, drug dealers, gangbangers, and inventors before his past finally caught up to him. Trapped in a world bookended by one wall falling in Berlin and other walls going up around suburbia and along national borders throughout the world, he rediscovered his deep love of history and, with it, and obsession with predicting the future as it grew aggressively out of the past. To date, this obsession has yielded over thirty books and innumerable short stories, the occasional short film, nearly a dozen podcasts stretching over a decade and a half, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the world through the lens of his own peculiar madness, in the depths of his own private forest in a rural exile, where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a production company that brings innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world. For news and free stories, sign up for his occasional newsletter. Or find his contact info, podcasts, and more on his home page at http://www.jdsawyer.net

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The vast majority of writing advice that is given out is primarily for DRAMA and how the protagonist MUST MUST MUST be changed by the end of the story.

Increasingly I feel as though this is not as true as those instructors would have you believe. Most of the books that I read are filled with Protagonists who in fact do not change.

Caine

December 3, 2015 at 9:51 pm 9 years ago

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1. Thanks for the comment, Caine. I’ll do another epsiode on this where I explore the nooks and crannies you’ve opened up here 🙂
  -Dan
  
  J. Daniel Sawyer
  
  December 6, 2015 at 12:53 am 9 years ago
  
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