Awww thank you so much! I like my new title, Queen of Drama! From now on, I want EVERYONE to call me that, my kids and boyfriend included! Oh wait, my boyfriend already calls me a drama queen, is that the same thing? LOL
Anyway, here are my tips for my style of soap opera drama:
1.Select over the top, dramatic plots. Soap opera style drama almost always involve love triangles, adult/teenage/sibling/family tensions, adultery, emotional breakdowns, unwanted and /or thwarted pregnancies, bigamy, adoptions, divorce, religious conversions, cults, theft, crime rings, unexpected calamities like car crashes and house fires, kidnappings, amnesia, bar brawls and mysterious disappearances. Don’t be afraid to write about stuff that is kind of twisted ( like adultery) or stuff that rarely happens (amnesia)! It’s DRAMA, embrace it and don’t feel embarrassed to write it, no matter how absurd lol.
2. But make the drama believable. I’ve had plots where my characters are in bizarre situations ( committing murder through a coin toss, discovering a long lost sister through a rare blood type, a psychopath masquerading as a nurse) but I try and make these situations seem as common as walking your dog or making casserole for dinner. I’ve never had a reader tell me, “Josie, that is so unbelievable!” Because I do my best to make these crazy scenarios seem like everyday occurrences. I do this by blending normal scenes with the bizarre. For example when one of my characters was shoved down the marble mansion stairs by a murderer, the previous scene was a normal one of her hanging out with friends!
3.Make your characters believable. Give them a motivation, give them a backstory. Ask yourself, “What does this character want and what is he or she doing in this scene to get it?” When you make your characters feel real, then the situations they face feel real. Give them accents, a particular fashion sense, a catch phrase or even a fetish…something that fleshes them out. You can choose your heroes and your villains, but try not to make them cookie cutter…make readers relate to them, maybe even grow to love them, or love to hate them lol.
4.Side characters and side plots are key! Most dramas have secondary story lines going on and a lot of them are intertwined and connected. Choose your main characters but also select side characters with their own events and stories to keep readers engaged. I tend to transition between characters by ending a set of character stories on a “cliff hanger” and then moving on to other characters. Drama readers LOVE that, it’s called a “hook” in television writing, it keeps viewers and readers coming back for more.
5. Choose vivid settings. Mansions, rundown neighborhoods, quiet little beach islands, glamorous penthouses, pawn shops… my characters all reside in very vivid settings because that draw readers in. Create a town with a mysterious secret, a bar where your characters hang out…create a time and space that readers will recognize and bond with.
Last, watch daytime soap operas, K dramas, telenovelas and shows like Jane the Virgin, the OC, One Tree Hill, Desperate Housewives, Riverdale, 90210 and Gossip Girl for inspiration! Hope this helps!
The Queen has spoken!
Anyone feel like helping me name this cutie?
The ingame randomizer gave her the name Marci Burgess, but idk how I feel about it. Just tell me whatcha think her name would be.
ps, I have zero plans for this cutie atm, I was just messing around in cas again
So I bought a new wifi adapter to replace the one I broke and it just…doesn’t work? Not that the usb isn’t recognized, it’s like it doesn’t exist. 🤬 I am so mad! I just want to scroll through tumblr and maybe work on posts and download cc. AND I CAN’T UNTIL I GET THIS FIGURED OUT. So I guess I’m on some kind of hiatus until I get wifi on my pc again. That, or connect an 80ft ethernet cable all the way downstairs. LdlysludeylskgdfkfjkFKslhshlalFkk
I’m depressed and really upset after work and I broke my wifi adapter so I have no way of accessing the internet on my pc so even less of a chance of getting a post anytime soon anx I’m just gonna go cry myself to sleep now, bye
Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)
Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, “I’m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.’ We’re going to get rid of them.”
“I looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, ‘Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I’ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.’
“And he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, ‘Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps’s name may be second, but mine will be first.’
“Then I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sir, you’re right. They’re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers—every woman in the WAC detachment—and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us—then I’ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we’ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.’
“And he said, ‘Forget the order.’
– The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
I’ve reblogged this before but it didn’t have these comments and HOLY HOT DAMN DID IT NEED THEM.
So, when someone sits down to write a fiction about Women commandos, and a Dudebro steps in to say “Huh, that is so unrealistic huh.”
Harold… oh, Harold…sit down, shut up, and stay out of our way.
History is infinitely gayer than a lot of people want to admit ❤
Went into game this morning, telling myself I’d shoot a scene with Yuki and Kaylee, only to muck around in cas and build/buy before realizing that it’s time to get ready for work.
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