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What Makes a Great Villain? — & DIE HARD Sequence 2
Continuing our discussion on Villains and Antagonists in general, and Die Hard in particular!
Jan 18
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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What Makes a Great Villain? — & DIE HARD Sequence 2
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Trial by fire
My heart and soul go out to all those affected by the California wildfires. Which is all of us.
Jan 14
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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DIE HARD breakdown - Sequence 2
The iconic action thriller DIE HARD creates not just a classic action hero but one of the greatest villains in movie history. Sequence 1 is all about…
Jan 12
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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DIE HARD breakdown - Sequence 2
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ABOUT THAT VILLAIN: Forces of Antagonism & Non-Human Villains
There’s almost always going to be a clear, identifiable MAIN ANTAGONIST in a story. But even when there’s an obvious Villain, it's always much more…
Jan 5
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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ABOUT THAT VILLAIN: Forces of Antagonism & Non-Human Villains
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December 2024
DIE HARD - story breakdown
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Dec 29, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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DIE HARD - story breakdown
Die Hard is an action thriller so iconic that it spawned its own subgenre of action films: “Die Hard on/in a bus, plane, ship, mountain, etc.” Writers…
Dec 29, 2024
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Level up your writing - with holiday movies!
Why not make this holiday season a crash course in structure— and maybe write the best book or script of your life so far in the New Year?
Dec 21, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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Rewriting: Structure patterns
Let’s talk about rewriting, and how to use structure patterns to help you revise and elevate your first draft.
Dec 15, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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DON'T start a new book! Finish the old one!
This time of year I hear this kind of thing a LOT: “So now I have a first draft and I couldn’t care less about finishing it.”
Dec 9, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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Screenwriting Tricks for Authors - private discussion group
I’m opening the Circle discussion board again for yearly subscribers, to see if we can get a discussion/brainstorming/support/Q & A group going over the…
Dec 4, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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November 2024
Nanowrimo: The Thanksgiving Coma
Even an ocean away, I can still feel that familiar inertia of this long weekend descending over me like a tryptophan-induced fog. How do you work…
Nov 27, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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Nanowrimo: The Thanksgiving Coma
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The Two-Part Act II
Whether you’re writing a book or a script, it’s incredibly useful to think of Act II as two separate Acts —Act II: 1 and Act II: 2 —which have their own…
Nov 22, 2024
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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