The Five Story Commandments

by Ray Foy We tend to consider sets of commandments as ultimate law (i.e., the famous Ten). Within the context of drama, I have found five that struck me as important because they refine and enlarge the dramatic arc of storytelling. The dramatic arc is the integral component of fiction (and creative nonfiction). It has… Read More The Five Story Commandments

September 11, 2019 petigrureviewLeave a comment

Aristotle’s Incline

by Ray Foy Writing is a means to an end. For many of us, that end is storytelling, which is best done when the telling is composed of “problem-complication-resolution” units. Taken in total, these units comprise a story’s “dramatic arc.” Aristotle wrote about drama theory in his work, Poetics. He described dramatic structure in a… Read More Aristotle’s Incline

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