vinebox: How others see your little sibling vs. how you do Vine is winning everything. (Source: http://vinebox.tumblr.com/)
Read morecatalyncrwth: annerocious: US navy VS lighthouse This is a myth, but it’s a great device to remember how plot and character relate to each other. Hint: Your protag is the lighthouse. Except when it’s a tragedy, in which case the plot is the lighthouse and the protag doesn’t get the memo. baahahahahahaha. good point. (Source:…
Read moreplotless-monster: It’s no surprise when people get educated, they don’t go back to the places they came from. (namely the small poor towns where people are batshit and hold a primitive mindset) Here’s another universal theme.
Read more50 Shades of You Can’t Argue with the Dollar Vote
So I’m as mad as anyone that this bad art spoke to a hundred million people, but I also find it pointless to just rage against it as stupid and wrong when it actually works as a story for so many people, most of whom are women. So I kept looking at it from every…
Read moreUS navy VS lighthouse This is a myth, but it’s a great device to remember how plot and character relate to each other. Hint: Your protag is the lighthouse.
Read moreHelpful Hint From the Comment Section
Protags are easier to write when they are not a slightly blurred version of the writer. If you read a comment section on an “issue” piece of any kind, you can identify the characters represented there as if the usernames were “DelusionalMRA”, “MyFeelingsAreFacts” and “YouFoolishPeasants”. You understand everything about those people immediately. You know what…
Read more“Known as the Motorcycle Queen of Miami, Bessie Stringfield started riding when she was 16. She was the first African-American woman to travel cross-country solo, and she did it at age 19 in 1929, riding a 1928 Indian Scout. Bessie traveled through all of the lower 48 states during the ’30s and ’40s at a…
Read moreSo I’ve started my intro. to screenwriting class in college a couple weeks ago. Any pointers you would like to shell out to this newb?
annerocious: If I had one single piece of advice, it would be: spend way more time developing layered, interesting characters than you think is necessary and less on plot. When you develop your characters properly, serious conflicts suggest themselves very naturally and your plot will follow obligingly along. Also follow writerlyn, lifeascaty, thisoldbitch and freelance-anthem…
Read moreWhy Cutting to the News Is a Sure Sign of a Bad Movie | Cracked.com
Why Cutting to the News Is a Sure Sign of a Bad Movie | Cracked.com Another excellent example of stuff I don’t make up to amuse myself.
Read moreHow to dialogue. People. Heads up.
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