title: Character, Scene, and Story: New Tools from the Dramatic Writer's Companion (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
author:  Will Dunne 
description: <DIV>&ldquo;If you are a playwright not yet on the Pulitzer short list, or a screenwriter not yet invited to the Oscars, the best thing you can do is get to Chicago and join Will Dunne&rsquo;s scriptwriting workshops at Chicago Dramatists. If you can&rsquo;t do that, the next best thing is to get <I>The Dramatic Writer&rsquo;s Companion </I>and <I>Character, Scene, and Story</I> and sit down to his exercises. Dunne describes clearly and succinctly how each element of drama works&mdash;each beat, each scene, each facet of character and stagecraft&mdash;and then he sets you to work to master it. The work leads wide and deep, from the hidden past to the strategies of scene, from objectives to the supernatural, from levels of desire to the pressures of conflict. Every hour&rsquo;s attention to one of these mental journeys will lead you to know more, imagine better, and write more nimbly.&rdquo;</DIV> (Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing)
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  ALSO BY ELIZABETH J. DUNCAN
  
   _The Cold Light of Mourning_
  
   _A Brush with Death_
  
  A PENNY BRANNIGAN MYSTERY
  
   _Elizabeth J. Duncan_
  
  ![](Images/image00119.jpeg)  
   _Minotaur Books_  
  A Thomas Dunne Book  
  New York  
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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
   _Title_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
   _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Chapter Eight_
  
   _Chapter Nine_
  
   _Chapter Ten_
  
   _Chapter Eleven_
  
   _Chapter Twelve_
  
   _Chapter Thirteen_
  
   _Chapter Fourteen_
  
   _Chapter Fifteen_
  
   _Chapter Sixteen_
  
   _Chapter Seventeen_
  
   _Chapter Eighteen_
  
   _Chapter Nineteen_
  
   _Chapter Twenty_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-One_
  
    
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
  portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
  
  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
  
  An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishi