Re: New Ideas
Cyfress, you throw that "need" word around a lot. What you suggest with the "open wound" is great, it adds depth to a character, but a writer doesn't "need" to include it.
"The Boston Strangler," staring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, was about an intense investigation, with little clues, for a mentally ill serial killer. It's investigator character didn't "need" to have an open wound.
You tell Bono, well, that story was based on true events, so I think they are in a box on what they could do with a character.
Have you ever heard of creative license? Writers and filmmakers use it all the time with stories based on true events. If a writer wants to have his investigator character in a story based on true events have an open wound, then he's free to do so.
Let's say your right and stories based on true events can't have a character with an open wound, unless they had it in real life, but original serial killer stories "need" to have an investigator with an open wound.
Doesn't this advice throw your great execution theory out the window? With this "need" edict, you're saying no matter how the writer executes his story, it's not gonna work without the open wound, where he's just chasing some manic serial killer.
By the way, my investigator in my serial killer story has an open wound (the death of his wife), but I'm just saying...
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"The Boston Strangler," staring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, was about an intense investigation, with little clues, for a mentally ill serial killer. It's investigator character didn't "need" to have an open wound.
You tell Bono, well, that story was based on true events, so I think they are in a box on what they could do with a character.
Have you ever heard of creative license? Writers and filmmakers use it all the time with stories based on true events. If a writer wants to have his investigator character in a story based on true events have an open wound, then he's free to do so.
Let's say your right and stories based on true events can't have a character with an open wound, unless they had it in real life, but original serial killer stories "need" to have an investigator with an open wound.
Doesn't this advice throw your great execution theory out the window? With this "need" edict, you're saying no matter how the writer executes his story, it's not gonna work without the open wound, where he's just chasing some manic serial killer.
By the way, my investigator in my serial killer story has an open wound (the death of his wife), but I'm just saying...
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