Quote of the day “Frankly if you’re writing and you don’t know how the movie ends, you’re writing the wrong beginning. Because to me, the whole point of the beginning is to be somehow poetically opposite the end.” -Graig Mazin Video of the week: Opening Shots Tell Us Everything Writing The Efficient Writer: Using Timelines to Organize Story Details | WRITERS… View Post
Time is a scarce resource. You should invest it prudently. Here are some tips for effectively manage your time, take control of your life, improve your productivity, and live healthy. 1. Have a morning routine Successful people, says Kevin Kruse in 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, don’t all follow the exact same routine, but you can easily identify… View Post
Quote of the day “Create an opponent… who is exceptionally good at attacking your hero’s greatest weakness.” -John Truby, The Anatomy of Story. Video of the week: The Dark Knight–Creating the Ultimate Antagonist Writing Character Motivation Entry: Being Acknowledged and Appreciated By Family | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® How to Manipulate a Protagonist’s Likability Using Narrative Distance | WritersDigest.com The Seven… View Post
Astronauts spend years training before they’re assigned to a space mission. Moreover, they train for a specific mission that takes between two and four years more. They practice tricky, repetitive tasks as well as challenging ones to the point of exhaustion. They train the astronauts in one skill more that other: the art of not panicking. It’s understandable. At 150… View Post
Quote of the day “The beginning of the scene should frame what the whole scene is about. The scene should then funnel down to a single point, with the most important word or line of dialogue stated last.” -John Truby, The Anatomy of Story. Video of the week: Gone Girl–The Last Line is the Point of the Scene Writing… View Post
Flow activities are the ones that make you the happiest. Think of activities like making art or cooking. But instead, you spend more of your free time on passive activities, like watching tv or Facebooking. Why are you not doing what you know makes you happy? Defining happiness There are uncountable definitions of happiness. Generally, there are two prominent modern… View Post
Quote of the day “The genre sophistication of filmgoers presents the writer with this critical challenge: [He or She] must not only fulfill audience anticipations…but must lead their expectations to fresh, unexpected moments, or risk boring them. The challenge is to keep convention but avoid cliché.” -Robert McKee. Video of the week: When Harry Met Sally–Breaking Genre Conventions Writing… View Post