![]() ![]() A joke the audience may not have gotten, but those of us who write immediately understood. By the way, I think the Cohen Brother’s offered a giggle to Synder’s book by having their character in Inside Llewyn Davis literally save a cat and carry it around most of the movie. Synder states that if the character does something nice, like saving a cat, then the character is immediately endeared to the reader. Blake Synder’s book Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need picks up on another animal use. And the reader is waiting for the next horrible act. ![]() Horrible! Immediately the reader feels the protagonist is threatened by someone evil. In his novella Secret Window, the protagonist finds his dog on his doorstep, killed. I remember Stephen King once saying that if you were writing horror, you need to put a dog or child into the plot because the vulnerability of someone innocent creates horror without a need for a lot of words or description. ![]() Today she’s going to talk about how to use animals in your stories to reveal character and theme. She juggles her time between her own desk and teaching others writing at two Los Angeles Colleges. ![]() Her family roots grow deep in the Midwest where she sets much of her work. Adamson, an award-winning author who has recently released her noir mystery novel Admit to Mayhem. ![]()
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