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The Art of Expostion
My friend Karel at The Story Department will be posting "Best Of Mystery Man" articles every Monday, which he is kicking off with my most popular Script Mag article, the first time it's ever been online for free, The Art of Exposition. Here's a taste:
"Great exposition is always in the context of something else. A scene should never be about exposition only. You should feed the exposition in the context of some other scenario that's going on in the scene whether it's poisoned food that's eaten by a bad secret agent monkey or whether it's something else interesting going on between the characters, such as a contest of wills, a budding love story, or perhaps exposition that's being told to a secretly bad character who will use that information against the protagonists."
Click here for the article.
Also, toward the end of every month, I'll have a new article at The Story Department. I'm thinking the first one will be called "A Screenwriting Revolution." Ooo...
-MM
