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Story Plot Structures: How Plays, Games, And Movies (Don't) Work

Story Plot Structures: How Plays, Games, And Movies (Don't) Work

A good story tells itself. If you are finding yourself stuck and attempting to force the events of a story, your story sucks. Or, you suck at telling stories. Stories with true narrative force are unstoppable. 99.9% of stories created today - even through the 36 situations - are

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Screenwriting is a lot like the guitar: easy to pick up, but incredibly hard to master. Anyone can play a campfire version, but becoming Steve Vai takes a mystical, quasi-Herculean combination of raw talent, practice, and discipline. Writing for the screen, in theory, is simple: 1 page is 1 minute,

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Drama is not for the shallow, or the fainthearted. A good play or movie should be like a good meal: it leaves you fulfilled. Feelgood “drama” without any chaos is like McDonalds: it temporarily gratifies, but leaves you feeling empty. Art should set your soul on fire, not anesthetize you

The Wonderful Characters of Proverbs

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 depravity

Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from

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