Hi Alex. I've a question for you. It's not related to what you've posted but think about it. You always talk about how we can use three act eight sequence structure in our novels. But how we can do this :-
Suppose the story is about five friends who went into the woods and something terrible happened in the woods. Only four came back. Now, the story moves forward 16 years later, we show the life of those four say A, B, C, D. One day all of them received a message from an anonymous number which says “ I know what you did with E.” They meet up to discuss this then the past scenes comes where they claimed they were innocent and police let them go. Ok, now my question comes :-
Whenever we see a Netflix series, they do it so brilliantly that immediately we want to see one more episode before we sleep and then we watch another and this goes on until the series ends. Say, an episode is 50 mins long, so when we come on the 46th or 47th min, they drop something. Back to my five friends story. Now we're on the 47th min and four different scenes comes in these 3 mins :-
A remembers how he had a fight with E.
B remembers how he did what he did.
C recives a message from one of the others ( name not revealed on the screen) the message says “ if I go to prison then you will too. So keep your mouth shut asshole.”
And in the last scene, D is shown where she opens a drawer in her wardrobe to reveal a hanky stains with blood.
{ The episode ends here }
Now my question :-
Now you'll say that these are cliffhangers or some revelations. I know they're but my question is we can't do the same thing in our book. If I'm writing this story then I've to write four different chapters with POV's of A, B, C and D then at the end of each chapter I can throw something but Netflix people do it so brilliantly. It won't work in a chapter like I've written above. Is there any way we can do it the same way they're doing? Or do we have to go by the boring route?
If you don't get my question then watch any of the Harlan Cohen's series on Netflix or One Of Us zis Lying. You'll understand what I'm asking. And I really want to know your views on One Of Us Is Lying. I'm fascinated by this series. Brilliantly executed.
Hi Gulfam. I understand your question, but it sounds like you might have a specific scene from one of those examples in mind. If you do, can you tell me the series and episode number? It would be easier to analyze the scene specifically than speak about this abstractly!
I actually have seen at least some of One of Us is Lying and I don't remember it at all! But it is based on a book. Have you read the book to see how the author created those scenes to begin with?
Hi Alex. I've a question for you. It's not related to what you've posted but think about it. You always talk about how we can use three act eight sequence structure in our novels. But how we can do this :-
Suppose the story is about five friends who went into the woods and something terrible happened in the woods. Only four came back. Now, the story moves forward 16 years later, we show the life of those four say A, B, C, D. One day all of them received a message from an anonymous number which says “ I know what you did with E.” They meet up to discuss this then the past scenes comes where they claimed they were innocent and police let them go. Ok, now my question comes :-
Whenever we see a Netflix series, they do it so brilliantly that immediately we want to see one more episode before we sleep and then we watch another and this goes on until the series ends. Say, an episode is 50 mins long, so when we come on the 46th or 47th min, they drop something. Back to my five friends story. Now we're on the 47th min and four different scenes comes in these 3 mins :-
A remembers how he had a fight with E.
B remembers how he did what he did.
C recives a message from one of the others ( name not revealed on the screen) the message says “ if I go to prison then you will too. So keep your mouth shut asshole.”
And in the last scene, D is shown where she opens a drawer in her wardrobe to reveal a hanky stains with blood.
{ The episode ends here }
Now my question :-
Now you'll say that these are cliffhangers or some revelations. I know they're but my question is we can't do the same thing in our book. If I'm writing this story then I've to write four different chapters with POV's of A, B, C and D then at the end of each chapter I can throw something but Netflix people do it so brilliantly. It won't work in a chapter like I've written above. Is there any way we can do it the same way they're doing? Or do we have to go by the boring route?
If you don't get my question then watch any of the Harlan Cohen's series on Netflix or One Of Us zis Lying. You'll understand what I'm asking. And I really want to know your views on One Of Us Is Lying. I'm fascinated by this series. Brilliantly executed.
Hi Gulfam. I understand your question, but it sounds like you might have a specific scene from one of those examples in mind. If you do, can you tell me the series and episode number? It would be easier to analyze the scene specifically than speak about this abstractly!
I actually have seen at least some of One of Us is Lying and I don't remember it at all! But it is based on a book. Have you read the book to see how the author created those scenes to begin with?