# Which writer failure modes do Sargent's chapters on character and practicability (1916) name, and which of them are his claims, which are his examples and which are his reports of practice?

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Across Ch. XVI and XVII Sargent names thirteen writer failures: telling character in the cast line, scenes whose only job is to establish character, caricature, coat-changing characters, unprepared change, effect over logic, impracticable plots, dependence on special effects, costume gambling, writing for a unique personality, mixed climates, beginners competing with advanced writers on novel effects, and adding suggestion and direction to prove practicality. Of these, F1-F6 are about character and F7-F13 about practicability; most are stated as claims, three or four are anchored in examples, and several practice reports (wreck stories, Bunny scripts) are anecdotes without a named film. He gives no frequency data or test.

Across Ch. XVI and XVII Sargent names thirteen writer failures: telling character in the cast line, scenes whose only job is to establish character, caricature, coat-changing characters, unprepared change, effect over logic, impracticable plots, dependence on special effects, costume gambling, writing for a unique personality, mixed climates, beginners competing with advanced writers on novel effects, and adding suggestion and direction to prove practicality. Of these, F1-F6 are about character and F7-F13 about practicability; most are stated as claims, three or four are anchored in examples, and several practice reports (wreck stories, Bunny scripts) are anecdotes without a named film. He gives no frequency data or test.

Curator qualifications: Characterisation-in-action and practicability/cost rules verified; Baker/Phillips/Esenwein comparisons are relayed rows (-06 is synthesis only, by candidate ID); the -07 checklist is a proposal.

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- [sourced_fact] Across Ch. XVI and XVII Sargent names thirteen writer failures: telling character in the cast line, scenes whose only job is to establish character, caricature, coat-changing characters, unprepared change, effect over logic, impracticable plots, dependence on special effects, costume gambling, writing for a unique personality, mixed climates, beginners competing with advanced writers on novel effects, and adding suggestion and direction to prove practicality. Of these, F1-F6 are about character and F7-F13 about practicability; most are stated as claims, three or four are anchored in examples, and several practice reports (wreck stories, Bunny scripts) are anecdotes without a named film. He gives no frequency data or test. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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