Sublime

fine writing puts less stress on what happens than on to whom it happens and why and how it happens.

Writing is not what follows research, learning or studying, it is the medium of all this work.

peripeteia in action.

Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’

All scenes must be thematically or structurally justified in the light of the Climax. If they can be cut without disturbing the impact of the ending, they must be cut.

archives of Charles Scribner’s Sons, which are housed in the Princeton University Library.

Vogler’s paradigm is in essence nothing more than a three-act structure viewed from the protagonist’s point of view;

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Edwin is capable of action but prone to inertia.