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🤳 #308 - The Bully Pulpit
What makes a bully believable to an audience? What responsibility do writers have to their audience when telling a story about bullying? We have an Inneresting think about this, and more, this week!
Chris Csont
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🤳 #307 - Are you someone famous?
What happens to the brain of someone who becomes famous, and how can writers use that to create more believable fictional famous characters?
Character Power Dynamics: Strong opinions vs. facts
Is there a wrong way to eat an Oreo cookie? Is there a specific order of operations for cleaning your bathroom? Why do some characters demand others agree with their opinions as if they were objective facts?
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😍 #306 - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Crushes, obsessions, insecurities: Inneresting looks at things that pretend to be love in stories.
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📛 #305 - Where do character names come from?
Sometimes writers struggle to name their characters. This week's Inneresting collects some ideas that might make the job easier (from a certain point of view).
Make good (monster fighting) choices, feat. Attack the Block
Looking for an example of characters surviving horrific monsters through making good choices? Attack the Block offers up an example.
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😱 #304 - How smart is too smart (for a character in a horror story)?
Your audience deserves a better class of horror victim. How do we write smarter characters that can still find themselves on the business end of a machete?
Is Jason Voorhees a sympathetic monster?
At what point does a monster become frightening for what they do instead of what they represent? Can writers find sympathy in a slasher?
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👹 #303 - Sympathy for the Monster
Don't reach for that pitchfork! We're talking about writing sympathetic monsters, and how offending the delicate sensibilities of a community is enough to set off an angry mob.
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👋 #302 - Introducing Your Dystopia
What does it feel like to live in a dystopia? What's the street level view of this broken society you're writing a story in? We have examples to talk about in this week's Inneresting.
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🤯 #301 - Okay, Doomer.
In some stories the future isn't bright, but you gotta wear mirrored shades. We're talking dystopian storytelling and the discomfort of when far-flung futures start to feel all too real.
Character Arcs: The Evolution of Dr. Alan Grant
A character's transformation within a story takes time. It's the accumulation of many moments over time, layering and building on each other. Ideally those moments mesh with other parts of the story already in play. As the character navigates the challenges in front of them, they