In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

  • -- Maria Semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普

在很多方面,电视写作教会了我如何成为一名优秀的说书人。我学到了对话,场景,情节的发展。

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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

首先是一个想法。然后,角色开始从这个想法中进化出来。最后,角色占主导地位:情节只是这些人可能会做什么或会成为什么人的一个功能。一切都得从他们的个性中流淌出来;否则,它就不会在情感上吸引人,也不可信。

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

通常情况下,你读剧本——我读了很多——而角色却不像人。他们感觉就像情节设置、陈词滥调或刻板印象。