Whoo! Second topic :3 No one else has anything? Come on, people! Ah well...

Just curious as to what sorts of drama and angst are scattered about your script.

The main source of drama in my script is the MMC, Sunny, and his not-so-innocent lifestyle. He's rather unfaithful in relationships and such, and he frequently hangs out with the "wrong people".

What's the main source of your drama?

So far:
*Mental illness (main character's bipolar BFF, who offs himself in the first scene... cheery)
*Poor coping strategies/"complicated grief" (by the MC and his cousin)
*Unreciprocated love (the MC's cousin loves someone who hates his guts)
*Unsolved murder
*Economic/environmentalc crisis (most of the cast are out-of-work fishermen on welfare)
*Total communication breakdown (MC and his immediate family)
Yeah, it's a cheerful place....

Hmm... so far we have:

~ dangerous coping mechanisms (let's just say one of the MCs handles her stress & grief in the wrong way)
~ health (physical, mental, emotional)
~ strained relationships (many angsty or sad scenes in this category)
~ probable character death (not sure yet... planning stage isn't that indepth)
~ the usual college-age drama (boys, friends, social scene)

Starting to think my FMC has a slight personality disorder, the more I outline stuff...

Son kidnapped/potentially doesn't exist
Slow mental breakdown

Oh yeah, and the Mom dies.

Death is essentially the main theme I'm working with, so various people go through various kinds of experiences with it, from the first moment they realize they're going to die (stolen directly from Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead), to a pregnant woman's cop husband being killed, to a blinding homeless woman's dog being run over, to the guilt that comes with murdering someone. It's not a particularly happy movie, obviously. It's not even particularly life-affirming at the end (or what passes for the end, anyway).

Well, I've got grief, organised crime, shoot outs and general peril, not to mention an FMC with an obsessive vendetta.

I love her *so* much ^-^

Let's see...in my story, the main character comes from a disgraced political family. She's trying to deal with that and her own very preppy image, which happens to be false--she's a very fierce athlete. She's also suffering from one-sided love for the most popular boy in school, a member of the basketball team.

He happens to have even more problems than she does. He has identity problems that stem from his twin sister's death, a rocky relationship with his parents that results in him living with the family doctor, and for some reason he's deathly afraid of his childhood friend and savior. (And that's just the tip of the ice burg.)

Even my two comic relief characters have their own problems. The prince's would-be friend has a complex over his very girly features, and a crush on the heroine. The Captain of the basketball team is an orphan who works himself to the bone to block out painful memories.

The story has two themes: "Who a person really is" and "The price of a life."

My main "drama" is fear for her children and trying to save them. There's a kidnapper in their town and the children that have been kidnapped have the same features as her middle child.

Their feelings of failure, a normal-looking/crazy boss, a driven husband, and so forth. Should be interesting to see how they all work together.

Tiffany

Hmm... Main sources of drama?
-Traumatizing childhoods (think massacres)
-Selflessness to the point of suicidal tendencies
-Self-preservation to the point of serial killer
-Absolutely no hope of getting out of the situation alive. Both protagonists know they're going to die and hope in vain despite of that.

Mine is set up as three stories in one.

1 - Mother is told her 8 year old son has only 24 hours to live. She has to decide whether or not to tell him.

2 - Older married man, no kids, is told he has 24 hours to live. Has to decide about work, his wife, and stuff like that.

3 - Gay man, told he has 24 hours to live so he spends the day with his best friend. He finds out his friend wanted to be with him all along.

Cough. 3 teenaged girls.

Need I say more?

Plenty of extramarital affairs
Impending revolution on the horizon that threatens to destroy everything for my MCs
Alcoholism
Typical wealthy decadence, corruption and imperialistic attitudes

That's all I can think of now

Basically I am tampering in teen drama/ high school Drama. My FMC struggles with a drug addiction and a need for suicide, temporarily drops out of high school, and is forced to live in a mental hospital. While she's there her best friend becomes friends with my FMC's "worst enemy." Overall, the drama is between petty girls, family problems, and struggling relationships with boys. You know, normal high school things.

"Cough. 3 teenaged girls.

Need I say more?"

I see your 3 and raise you seven plus two gay guys and a 'player'.

I am writing a creative non-fiction screenplay about a university student whose life gets turned upside down when her professor becomes obsessed with her. She comes to realize that she is a lesbian attending a homophobic university in a violently misogynistic town. She loves the older woman but is terrified by her increasingly erratic behavior. There are some elements of magical realism and some tragic elements as well. One of the minor characters has a dream presaging the main character's suicide attempt. Her life dreams are threatened, and she has to stand up for herself after the older woman essentially throws her under the bus. It has a lot of dramatic and controversial elements that are hard to describe here.

So far I have family drama, death, abuse, shady business dealings, and relationship issues. It's fun!

Well, I drafted a married father of 2 into the war that broke out in his country. While in on the battlefield he's hit by the impact of a large explosion that kills a lot of people and he is believed to be dead because he was mostly melted by the heat of it and was indistinguishable (and incapable of speaking until a lot of surgeries later). Well, his wife gets impregnated by the wounded soldier she's hosting (because there is no room in the hospitals for those who just need time to heal). Her lover heals and goes back into battle. It looks like their country will be taken over entirely by the invaders. Then it all gets sorted out (not the drama so I'm skipping over it). Her lover/ father of her child returns, they get married, etc. but then her 1st husband comes back. The very last scene in my play will be husband #1 comitting suicide because he's lost everything (which I actually feel really guilty about doing to him, even though he tries to smother the new baby). No, it's not a "War" genre, it exists only in the background.

At least one character death.
One character must come to terms with being homosexual.
It takes place during our current recession here in the U.S., so... yeah.

I've got my MCs coming to terms with their sordid pasts, a really evil crime syndicate, three dead parents, a dead girlfriend, rape resulting in PTSD, and one character murdering another after falling in love with him and then being betrayed in a terrible way. All set in post-apocalyptic New York City during the winter time.

Fun stuff.