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Write your best book or script - using storytelling tricks from your favorite movies!
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Why are you doing this?
As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t been keeping to my regular, one post a week schedule for this newsletter. I wasn’t going to get personal about why, but recent events have changed my mind on that. So here it is.
Jul 17
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Rage
There are times, and this one is as big as that abyss that opened up in 2016, that I have no words. Or more probably, I’m afraid to speak because if I did, the rage would just never stop coming. I’m grateful that when I can’t find the words to express my own overpowering emotion…
Jun 26
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Trick yourself into writing
How do you keep writing, no matter what’s happening in your life? You have to trick yourself into writing. Last post I asked what you needed from this newsletter. I got a lot of requests for two things: 1. Strategies for writing even when life and the world is crumbling around…
Aug 4
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Ten Inciting Incidents to help you write your book
I’m revising my own Act I, and I’m feeling like continuing with the refresher I started last week on the crucial Story Elements that are part of the DNA of any story.
Jun 19
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
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Why are you doing this?
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Ten Inciting Incidents to help you write your book
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Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day
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Ten Romantic Movies
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Three essential questions about your protagonist
- Do you know your Protagonist's PLAN?
Jun 12
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ENCANTO breakdown
Sequence One Essential Story Elements
May 15
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Practice Story: ENCANTO
Encanto is a great watch to learn Essential Story Elements - 15 minutes at a time.
May 8
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Practice Story
Key Story Element: Protagonist's DESIRE
Apr 24
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What sells a book to TV / the movies?
Case study: SLOW HORSES. Very, very often, the first person to say yes to a book and pass it up the line for studio consideration is the reader, or…
Mar 25
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Your First Draft Is Always Going to Suck
I’ve never read Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. But I understand the metaphor of the Slough of Despond. We’ve all been there, right? We’ve been there…
Mar 19
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
Nanowrimo Now What?
Mar 5
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Nanowrimo Now What?
Top Ten Things I Know About Editing
Feb 27
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Six Great Scenes Make a Movie — or a book!
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Ten Inciting Incidents to help you write your book
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Groundhog Day for Groundhog Day
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Ten Romantic Movies
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Screenwriting Tricks for Authors
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