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Drama: December 07, 2016 Issue [#8012]

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 This week: Rivalries and Envies
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Rivalries and Envies


The holidays bring out the worst in us.


What better source of drama than the holidays?


It's the most wonderful time of the year ... or is it?

Keeping up with the Jones's is hardest around the holidays. It begins with the battle for the most epic lighting display in front of the house and it keeps going from there. Who got the biggest new car or truck. Who travels to the most exotic location for the holidays?

Whether neighbor, co-worker, or relative - people are going to have to deal with someone (or many people) who will seem to have everything and then some. And definitely the most shiny version of everything and then some. It's the time for rivalries and envies. As a writer, you can use the bragging you see and the envy you witness as a source for your dramatic writing.

A few years ago, a video circulated on the internet of a teenager who burst out into a crying fit when the iPhone she received for Christmas had the wrong color. This was a prime example of greed and being spoiled to a point where getting what she asked for was still corrupted by a minor detail. As embarrassing as this episode was for the girl in retrospect, she gave a great example to us writers as to how petty we can make our characters when it comes to present giving and present receiving.

We even have an example from fiction: Dudley Dursley of Harry Potter is upset when he only counts 32 presents for his birthday.

If you're going to write any type of drama involving gift giving and receiving, be sure to have at least one character be completely oblivious and greedy. It really gets the reader's blood boiling and it's a great way to show a character's personality without having to tell about it.


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Death at Rosewood Mansion Open in new Window. (13+)
Excerpt from a gossip column about the death of a famous director....
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The Greedy Man Open in new Window. (E)
A poem about greed and its price.
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A Customer's Perspective Open in new Window. (E)
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The reading of a will
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A Trip to Love Open in new Window. (18+)
Will Kelly and Sarah ever work it out?
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A discovery of bones prompts his love to tell her secret.
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The Christmas Carol Ballet Open in new Window. (E)
"The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens has been a holiday staple. Now, dance to it!
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Never underestimate the little guy...or his rival. An original myth.
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