Day 219

[adonnchaid]

Along with thinking about outlines and sentence structure and what effect they can have on a story, I've been thinking about tone. As in, the emotional sense that the story or scene conveys. Today one of the networks was running a bunch of the Jesse Stone tv movies (if you don't know these, they're very good, from the Jesse Stone books by Robert B. Parker (may he rest in peace) and played by Tom Selleck), and I realized that, along with the excellent character work in the stories, that Jesse Stone is a very Chris Larabee-like character. Dark and haunted, but not irredeemably so.

I know that when we need inspiration, we often return to our source material (dvds are our friends), but what other shows/movies/books do you look at to reinforce the tone you want to convey in your story?