Genre Essentials: Drama — 10 Drama Scripts You Must Analyze

When you are writing an original screenplay within a specific genre, you really should know the heart, soul and guts of that genre. This will inform every step of your creative and writing process: concept, character development, brainstorming, plotting, tone, style, atmosphere, voice, pace, and so on. There are certain attributes common to each genre, and you need to know as much about them as possible, if you want to follow, reverse or break those conventions.

Obviously you can’t read and watch everything, but isn’t there a way to cover the essentials?

Which led me to a new GITS series: Genre Essentials.

This week: Drama.

Today: 10 Drama Scripts You Must Analyze.

Please post your suggestions in comments. Let’s do our best to generate quality suggestions.

To read your suggestions for 10 Drama Movies You Must See, go here.

Next week: Family.

I am pleased to announce that Shaula Evans has kindly agreed to oversee the flow of resource suggestions for the Genre Essentials series. My current thinking is whittle down the choices to something on the order of 20 titles [where we have that many], then put them up to a vote of the GITS community to end up with 10 top choices. Meanwhile thanks, Shaula, for the help!

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