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Meeting true evil for the first time
Wrapping up Villaintine's Month, we're looking at what happens when an innocent meets a being of pure evil for the first time.
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🕹️ #282 - Playing games with your audience
A player and a viewer are two entirely different types of audience, right? Of course we're going to say no. You understand how this kind of tease works.
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A villain's presence without being present
There's a twist in this Villaintine's Month post: The villain's not who you think it is. And they might not even exist?
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❓ #281 - Why exactly are you doing this?
Have you found your story's guiding star? How do you know if you've latched on to something that will keep you writing to the end?
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This is my villain origin story: Salieri vs. Mozart
Villaintine's Month continues with a closer look at Amadeus, and how a villain like Salieri can make an excellent protagonist (without losing the villainy).
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🧐 #280 - We play to a sophisticated audience
If there's one thing the internet has done for the general public's savviness with entertainment, it's bombard them with clickbait-sized helpings of trope education. But if there are two things, that second one is increasing how much we talk about what we watch,
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Villaintine's Month: Miles Morales vs. Kingpin
This month we're looking at pairings of heroes and villains that have more chemistry than some romantic couples. What does it mean to be an archnemesis?
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Screenwriting Credits Explained
Writer credits are complicated, and unpacking them for any particular project may be an impossible task without talking directly to those involved.
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Never Too Late: Screenwriting at Any Age
John tackles a difficult question for writers who wonder how long is too long to keep trying.
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Assistants’ Advice for Showrunners
John surveyed current and former TV assistants to create a document that is both specific to the world of television and also can broadly apply as a template for how to be a better boss.
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Novel vs. Screenplay: Choose the Right Route for Your Story
John talks about knowing what medium would best suite the story you're trying to tell.
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🗓️ #279 - What will we make this year about?
Thanks for joining us again for the start of another Inneresting year! Even though a new year is a somewhat arbitrary place to make a fresh start, it's a good time to take stock. What have you been doing? What are you doing? What do you want to