What anime can teach you about ending a story
I have several issues with this article. Firstly, the conception that the recent framing of popular series in the context of God or an afterlife being a resurgence of conservative thought. For one thing, God is seldom recognized as the motive force as it is in Supernatural. In Lost, we never understood who or what was the force at play. Simply that the story ended in an afterlife scenario. For another thing, these stories are coming from some of the most unrepentant liberals writing in television. The other issue I have is the characterization that conservative stories appoint a conservator of the status quoe and the stories involve triumph over self. If their stories told us anything it was exactly that one must give up fighting outside events and concentrate on coming to terms with events within. One of the things I will grant anime is that it is not afraid to let the chips fall where they will. Now please, flame gently.
Learn to Become a Phenomenal Storyteller with Pixar's 22 Writing Rules
How Elon Musk Thinks: The First Principles Method
Designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy for the Noun Project The creative routines of famous creatives has been popular internet fodder this year. The Pacific Standard thinks this obsession and trend of emulating famous artist’s habits is problematic, to say the least. The idea that any one of these habits can be isolated from the entirety of the writer’s life and made into a template for the rest of us is nonsense. We often talk about process at 99U, so we think this is a great debate. Read the rest of the article here.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. To do this Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors. Publication history[edit] “Gozzi maintained that there can be but thirty-six tragic situations. This list was published in a book of the same name, which contains extended explanations and examples. The list is popularized as an aid for writers, but it is also used by dramatists, storytellers and many others. The 36 situations[edit] Each situation is stated, then followed by the necessary elements for each situation and a brief description. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Dan Harmon's Story Circle vs. Cosine Wave
More on Dan Harmon’s “Story Circle” and my theory it is a cosine wave I’ve discussed before how Dan Harmon (creator of Community, co-writer for Monster House) has distilled the Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth into a very basic tool for describing the arcs of a story. Harmon prefers to see his story structure as a circle, whereas I believe that it is in fact a Cosine Wave. Since I’ve posted the above gif I’ve gotten quite a few notes about it and I thought I’d expand on my idea of why Harmon’s circle best fits a Cosine. While the story circle on its own is sufficiently impressive on its own, Harmon has further extrapolated on the theory. In “Story Structure 104" Harmon discusses briefly how the circle is made of opposite parts. Top-Bottom Duality The top-bottom duality is best discussed by Harmon in “Story Structure 102.” Left-Right Duality Compare that with my cosine wave below: Here because the x-axis operates as a measure of time, the left-right distinction operates consistently.
The Crucial Storytelling Mistake that Many Beginning Writers Make
I'm not sure I know what a "situation" means - a scene? Or just a conflict/obstacle with no arc or backstory? I've started short stories with a "scene" before, and if you're good enough to develop themes efficiently, you might be able to create an entire short story with just one. I'd say a big mistake I see is when writers try to write a novel/novella/very big short story and create too many "situations" without threading them together in a meaningful way. It's like seeing one crisis after the next without a sense of flow, escalation or purpose. I took it to mean a situation is static — I can't get these vampires to leave my house! Basically, a situation means "the location/surroundings of a place" or "a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; aka state of affairs". I think a lot of people, myself included, have stories that start "Wouldn't it be cool if...?". At least that's how I take it. She means concept. What happens when you do the vampire protection spell backwards?
How to Write a Screenplay - Plotting - High Concept
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do.
Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s so easy to hide in your little bubble, typing your little words with your little fingers on your little laptop from the comfort of your tiny chair in your miniature little house.
Inkwell Ideas » 101 Questions to Help Create Character Backgrounds and Personalities
A character needs to be more than just a few scores and abilities and possessions. There are so many ways to make your character more memorable and most of them don’t take much time. Below is a list of 101 things to consider when creating a character. You certainly don’t need to answer all or even half of them to make a character more interesting. Just answer a few that seem most pertinent and you’ll have a much more interesting character. Simply skim the list and if any point gives you an idea for something about your character, jot it down. Personality Is the character generally approachable or does he keep to himself? Background Why was the character given the name he has? What am I missing?
"How a TV Show Episode Gets Written" - A PSA - Purveyor of Fine Stories
