14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Rob Kimbro
Rob Kimbro joins us this week to talk about Aristotle’s elements of tragedy, and how they might be applied to our writing. The six elements are (in Aristotle’s order of descending importance): plot, character, idea, dialog, music, and spectacle. We discuss this tool in terms of critiquing existing work, and in finding direction in the things we create.
Credits: this episode was recorded by Howard Tayler, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework: Take something you’ve written, and then rank the elements based on how important they are in what you wrote. Now re-order the elements, and rewrite the piece to match the new ranking.
Thing of the week: Aristotle’s Poetics, by Aristotle, narrated by Ray Childs.
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