screenwriting Deadly Sins of Screenwriting Art has month purposes, but its sacred one is to reveal truth. Greek mythology and the Bible all speak in stories. Aristotle uses the same word as St Paul to describe a crucial thing which underpins everything that makes us human and drives art: Hamartia. In The Poetics, Hamartia is
screenwriting Understanding How The Other Species Communicates: A Study For Life Tucked away in Leigh Michaels' (LeAnn Lemberger's) excellent writers' guide, "On Writing Romance" (2007), is a fascinating snippet about male/female relations which wouldn't be amiss in the self-help section of your local bookstore. The concept of us being two different "species" is now so overplayed it's become a trope,
bible The Wonderful Characters of Proverbs Lady Wisdom, who “calls out in the street” for men to follow herThe Bible is the finest example of the best storytelling the world has ever known. Whether it is the simplicity of parables told so uneducated peasants can understand them, to the darkened depths of David’s moral
hollywood Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from It’s a cruel irony, Aaron Sorkin cannibalised his view on artistic “recycling” from T.S Eliot’s brutal reflection of creative realpolitick: “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”The great scientist, Issac Newton, simply acknowledged his inspirations: “If I have seen further it
