Comedy tolerates more coincidence than drama,

We rework the treatment until every moment lives vividly, in text and subtext. That

To reinvent: No matter in what order the novel’s events were told, reorder them in time from first to last, as if they were biographies.

Name this subtextural action with an active gerund phrase, such as “

Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

Comedy likes bright light and color. Comics need full shots because they act with their whole bodies.

“Spectacle and Truth.

A SEQUENCE is a series of scenes—generally two to five—that culminates with greater impact than any previous scene.

Sympathetic means likable.