New Storytelling Paradigms – Crots And Fractals (Part 2)
Crots A crot is defined as a piece of story. I’m not sure you can get away with seemingly unrelated pieces of story, but imagine if you could throw small vignettes on the screen that will then form the whole. Like a jigsaw puzzle tossed willy-nilly on a board and you must put it […]
New Storytelling Paradigms – Meander and Explode (Part 1)
Discover new storytelling paradigms: fractals, meander, explode and wave. Master innovative narrative structures that transform your screenwriting craft.
How Ethics & Morality Shape Characters (Part 2)
Here’s the second part of our two part series. Elementary, Ms. Holmes An old saying in writing is we’re not writing reality, we’re writing the illusion of reality. Taking a character, surrounding them with a complete world and a set of moral values that either support or deny that world is a fantastic way […]
Where Structural Technique and Pure Storytelling Meet
Dramatic writing is generally considered the most elusive of all the literary disciplines. It’s slippery, it’s unpredictable, and it’s hard to pin down. The ability to utilize structural technique on a partially-formed story is a crucial part of making scripts work because you have to dramatize the story, adapt it for a theatrical presentation, whether […]
Colliding Two Story Ideas Together To Make One Great One
The quest for a great story involves chewing through hundreds of ideas trying to find one with that magic something. And not only do you have to find an idea, but you have to evaluate its power because the ability to tell gold from fool’s gold is crucial to having a sustained screenwriting career. Wasting […]
