The 22 year old playwright Henrik Knightingale has just released his debut play In His Own Shadow.

The play is set 150 years into the future, where a miracle happens: a new theater play is produced - and it is actually good! Can stories about love restore our faith in existence?

Knightingale sits down to talk about the craft of writing a story, how he overcomes the challenges of writing, and how he "kills his darlings".

Putting his own play in context, he will also discuss the authors who spur him in his own writing, taking a look at the structure of Antigone and Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Chapter markers:

00:00: Intro

01:14 Learning how to essentialize

04:03 Sense of Life

06:16 Knightingale's play In His Own Shadow

11:45 The Shakespeare/Bacon theory

14:00 Questions unfold the plot

16:12 Starting to write

19:22 Causality, logic and internal consistency

27:59 The importance of a synopsis

31:40 Everything must serve a function

33:22 Climax and the inevitable

39:00 Developing the villain and killing your darlings

47:23 Subplots and double meaning

53:40 Learning how to write from Leonard Peikoff

56:07 “Plot theme” keeps you on track

59:48 Opposition, stakes and key concepts

1:05:08 “A nest of characters at each others' throat”

1:08:02 Trusting the audience

1:16:05 What is most vulnerable

1:19:28 The importance of being important

This episode featured Henrik Knightingale & Jan-Ove Tuv and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.

The centerpiece was a reproduction of Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich.

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Henrik Knightingale on his Debut Play and How to Write a Compelling Story

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