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Scott Rochester

3 Apr 'How do you navigate scenes with many characters'

The narrator dominates scenes with many people. In this extract OpenMike has broken the 4th wall and is talking to the reader as if they are a volunteer helper.

Usually, dialogue is just 2 people. If there are 4, then the text alternates between the first 2 talking, then the second 2.

I'm writing for teenagers. Too much complexity is unwelcome.

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a string orchestra rehearsal in a school music room, one teacher is playing violin, two pupils are seated playing cellos, four others are standing playing violins, they are all dressed informally Book extract CopperWolf - Conflicts and Alliances Chapter 9 Laughter is the Best Medicine What you can do for me now please, is set up the judges tables and chairs, right here in the front row. This time we have eight judges, I want the two kids in the middle, and three adults on each side. Of course, the kids are convinced that they are the best, most well informed judges around, and that their opinions are more valuable than the others. Have you met Hayley and FullyCharged? You soon will! Franklin and Faraday will be here, and Sylvie has arranged for the CopperWolf and the Provost and the Professor to sit on the panel with her tonight. We only do the Talent Night once every quarter, and we usually get a really good turnout. It normally brings together our best performers. Kayt and Conning are regulars, MaxChaos has a slot tonight, that’s a first, and we have some irregular light entertainment which you’ll see later. Not panto, but similar, a bizarre melodrama filling in the gaps between acts. Oh, and leave this space here for the orchestra. The school orchestra! Miss Fortune needs that piano put there, and she needs eight chairs for her pupils, violins and cellos mainly, and one young lad with three kettle drums! copyright © Scott Rochester 2025
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Scott Rochester

3 Apr

please watch 90 seconds of this

from 21secs to 1min54

"Also sprach Zarathustra"

This is the opening of the Talent Show on a Saturday night - The Orchestra of Miss Fortune - with 12 year old AngryBard on KettleDrums - doing 90 seconds of uplifting classical music

Somehow I have to convey this in words in chapter 9!

youtube.com/watch?v=GfwAPg4rQQ







a professional kettle drum player in an orchestra next to a picture of a 12 year old boy with blonde hair who stands behind a copper coloured kettle drum - he is wearing a blue T shirt, has both hands raised, and is holding drumsticks up in the air - the tips of the drumsticks are fitted with large blue heads
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