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)
zlib_text: Capitol Murder
  
   _A Novel of Suspense_
  
  Phillip Margolin
  
  ![](Images/image00161.jpeg)
  
   ** _Dedication_**
  
   _For Jean Naggar, Jennifer Weltz, and everyone at the Jean V. Naggar Literary
  Agency._
  
   _It’s nice to have great agents who are also great friends._
  
   **Contents**
  
   _ _Dedication__
  
   _Prologue_
  
   _Part I_
  
  “May You Live in Interesting Times”
  
   _Chapter One_
  
   _Chapter Two_
  
   _Chapter Three_
  
   _Chapter Four_
  
   _Chapter Five_
  
   _Chapter Six_
  
   _Chapter Seven_
  
   _Part II_
  
  Love Hurts
  
   _Chapter Eight_
  
   _Chapter Nine_
  
   _Chapter Ten_
  
   _Chapter Eleven_
  
   _Chapter Twelve_
  
   _Chapter Thirteen_
  
   _Chapter Fourteen_
  
   _Chapter Fifteen_
  
   _Chapter Sixteen_
  
   _Chapter Seventeen_
  
   _Chapter Eighteen_
  
   _Part III_
  
  Strange Interlude
  
   _Chapter Nineteen_
  
   _Chapter Twenty_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-one_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-two_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-three_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-four_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-five_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-six_
  
   _Part IV_
  
  Jihad
  
   _Chapter Twenty-seven_
  
   _Chapter Twenty-eight_
  
   _Chapte