Tips for Writing Drama!

I love a little bit of drama, in fact I love a lot of drama. I love conflict between people and I love raw emotion being thrown around. I'm not a lover of actual acting because I have really bad stage fright, but people who can act and act well, are great. It's like a writer, taking in all those people and expressing them in their words, an actor expresses their character through movement and speech.




That paragraph is a bit misleading...I'm not going to tell people who to write play scripts or anything, I'm just going to give some tips on writing or incorporating drama into their writing.




The greatest element in any drama is CONFLICT! Without conflict you don't have drama.




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A good drama has a combination of genres. I've said it before, so I'm going to say it again and in the spirit of LGBT History Month, I think I'm allowed. I have planned 2 gay romances and I cried whilst planning both of them, the reason being, because of how much drama there was. And that's another thing, if you don't feel it then how do you expect your reader to feel it?




Do you think that we writers should put ourselves through this emotional turmoil?




I do! I do!




You need to convince your readers that it's plausible, that the motivation and action surrounding that motivation is strong. It's not necessary to kill a character or anything but I think that there needs to be an argument or two. You might want secrecy and betrayal, go for it! Write something that you would want to read, something that you're even excited to see what happens next.




Top tip! If you want some drama, just turn on any news channel and their will be at least one story on there about a family...maybe the father killed his children. And as a writer you have to ask why! If you don't then you're plot doesn't go anywhere.




It goes without saying that you need to flesh your characters out and reiterating what I said before, their motivation must be strong. 




If you missed the last 3 genre related posts, then don't worry, because they're here: Fantasy, Romance and Horror.




-Joseph




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