Movie Stars   >   Linda Heys   >   Forum

Linda Heys Forum

Second Act Story is Excellent (Tue Jul 4, 2006 12:22am ET)report post
by Dr Euan Mitchell
Lynda Heys' workshop 'The Second Act Story' is an excellent practically based analysis of the second act in a screenplay or indeed genre novel. I attended Heys' Melbourne workshop in 1995 and, in the 11 years since, have applied her analytical model to editing and writing a range of stories of my own and of others, including published novels. In 1995 she made the comment that the first and third acts of story structure are generally well analysed and theorised, but the same could not be said of the second and longest act. She was right. And her workshop remedied this crucial imbalance.
Comment on this...

Post a new comment

name to be displayed*:   Remember me

* = required
e-mail:
title of comment*:
comment*:

smileys:
:-)  :-D  :-(
Never include your phone number or address in your comment. Be nice. Please refrain from inappropriate language and personal attacks. We reserve the right to delete your entry without notice. Your IP address is logged. Came across something that you or others might find offensive? Let us know by clicking on the 'report post' link.