Well, I do. But here’s a confession. Until I started writing and submitting short stories a few years ago, I didn’t. Not one. I barely knew of their existence. Granta and The Paris Review sat prominently displayed on the counter of my local independent bookstore and I might glance at their covers, even scan the […]
Should You Slam Your Story’s Brakes?
This week’s video cautions against allowing your story’s “ticking clock” to speed things up too much.
The Show Goes On
A poem that asks us to look behind the masks we all hide behind. Are we hypocrites or players in this show that just goes on?
Orator
The orator is the movement of spiritually through time and space. It is the mythology of all existence that isn’t fixed in the physical.
Structuring Your Story’s Scenes, Pt. 2: The Three Building Blocks of the Scene
Like story itself, each Scene follows a specific structure.
Red Sky
The world as Marshall McCarthy saw it one morning, in years bygone.
Structuring Your Story’s Scenes, Pt. 1: Mastering the Two Different Types of Scene
The scene – that most integral, most obvious, most universal part of any story – is also the most overlooked and least understood when it comes to the craft of storytelling.
What’s the Most Important Moment in Your Character’s Arc?
This week’s video discusses the problem of making a character react without logic.
Nos Enfants
This poem speaks to the loss of children throughout the world through violence and gives it a voice.
Filmmaking 101 Part 2 — The Script
Filmmaking 101 is a series of articles following film newbie Sarah Gignac as she produces her first short film, Curtains. Creating something — whether it be art, music, literature, a new company, a product that you want to sell on the interweb to make your million — happens in two distinct phases. In the first you, and your […]
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