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 moreOLD WRITER YELLS AT CLOUD
Your Phone is Murdering Your Soul. So this is a “backlash” piece about how cellphones are making humans inhuman, including how cellphones make it impossible to WRITE about people anymore. Which: Granted, that is not the point of the article, which is itself a trolly clickhole, but the author claims that stories can no longer…
Read morePLEASE, FOR THE CHILDREN…
annerocious: Turn off the “continued” at the top and bottom of every page option. It’s in the preferences menu.
Read moreI find it impossible to write fiction that’s set after 2002. [….] It’s just that it’s inconceivable to depict contemporary times authentically without including interludes where characters stare at their cell phones instead of advancing their plotlines – their lives – towards some conclusion. Which is, as a thing to read, mind-numbingly dull. Unless I…
Read moreThere is a good idea in every script. There is. They go wrong when they aren’t given a twist or an update, when the main character is not relatable or active, when the stakes are watered down, or when the resolution isn’t cathartic. There is a story for your idea, don’t let it go horribly…
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