Among the many "how-to" writing books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of story construction. Lajos Egri's classic does just that, with advise that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.
Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to move the story forward and give it life, as well as an understanding of human motives — why people act the way that they do. Egri shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise (a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behavior) and to develop the dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior.
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