audiaphilios: The kind of thinking I like to see, the kind of thing I like to think about– and tell my students to think about. Amazing how much a movie could be fixed by telling it from the woman’s POV. EDUCATIONAL AND COOL (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Read moreStory is Transformation
Here’s a quick rule of thumb for your protag. Move as far as you can between the before and the after. Start like this. And use the story to get to this. Transformation is what stories are about. The bigger the better. It’s easy to make the transformation dramatic when the distance between before and…
Read moreDo Yourself a Favor
And write for actors. Not long monologues and foaming at the mouth, necessarily. If you think like an actor, which means creating a sensible string of motivations and reactions and plans so that the character behaves like a person instead of a mechanism to move the plot to a given point on a given page,…
Read morebrynwrites: If a scene feels awkward, slow, or just not-quite-right… (1) Try taking a piece of action and plopping it in the middle of a drama scene, or plop a piece of drama in the middle of an action scene. (Give your character something they need to overcome in order to get back to their…
Read moreKnowing Your Ending
annerocious: Before you start writing…
Read moreKnowing Your Ending
Before you start writing…
Read moreredneckkungfu: lush is fine and they have nice soap but going in there is like a minefield of bohemia like if one of the employees doesnt lunge at me asking me if i wanna sample goat lotion or whatever the shit i end up wheeling into some woman dressed in five blankets and knocking the…
Read moreEasy Ways to Pick up the Sagging Middle of Your Novel
fictionwritingtips: fictionwritingtips: A lot of writers have trouble writing the middle of the novel. Either they don’t know how to structure it properly or they’ve just lost motivation (I’ve written endless posts on motivation, so try searching for them). I think we’ve all read books that have just lost all momentum in the middle, so…
Read morewriting-questions-answered: Anonymous asked: Is it possible to write a scene, both interesting & legal, of the character listening to music? In a movie that bought the rights, it makes for an interesting look at the character’s personality & choice of music, sets the scene, etc. But how can you do that in writing without naming…
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