Karen Moncrieff worked for ten years as an actor, then became a screenwriter. In a Writers Guild magazine article, she notes “Writing felt so comfortable in a way that acting never really did. With writing, I was using all parts of myself, all of my skills.”
She wrote [and directed] her powerful film Blue Car in [...]
Entries from February 2007
Fear and the writer
Exploring fatal flaws of character
In her article The Fatal Flaw – The Most Essential Element for Bringing Characters to Life, Dara Marks, PhD describes the fatal flaw as “a struggle within a character to maintain a survival system long after it has outlived its usefulness.”
She says, “Identifying the fatal flaw instantly clarifies for the writer what the internal journey [...]
