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Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations

Writing Excuses

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How to Tell a Thought

I think that it's because we have grown up with so much cinema, so much movies. And that's a very cinematic technique. They're trying to tell third person cinematic instead of third person limited. But some people don't want to do it. It is possible to take the thought thing way too far. Don't have a thought every paragraph or something like this. I always thought I think Dan, you're probably right, it might be a cinematic thing. That's a really good point, Dan. Maybe right on that breaking out of that and, you know, getting down inside of their heads in a way that a purely visual medium can't do as effectively.

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