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🤹 #266 - What if you want to do more than write?

How many hyphens do you want in your title? We look at when actors write and writers act.

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↔️ #265 - It could have happened that way

Let's take a look at some real events that made it to the screen more than once.

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🐶 #264 - Who's a good boy?

Forget saving the cat. Show the reader your hero's inner dog.

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🔌 Inneresting #263 - Who's got the power?

With scenes and sequences in a story, who has the power? Who's in control? And what will it take to change the character in the driver's seat?

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🧬 Inneresting #262 - Human After All

or: How I Learned to Stop Trying to Turn Off the Feelings Marvin Gaye said, "Great artists suffer for the people." The First Noble Truth of the Buddha is The Truth of the Existence of Suffering. There are enough popular examples of the tortured artist stereotype to fill

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🪭 Inneresting #261 - Do you know your audience?

How can a story show it has a strong, personal understanding of its audience? Should a story start from there, or find its way?

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🗣️ Inneresting #260 - How long do we need to talk about this?

Sometimes we use science to talk about craft, like when a study about conversations can teach something about dialogue.

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🗑️ Inneresting #259 - It's all just trash

We're talking about the Garbage Can Model and how a description of chaotic organizations can help writers think about their minds and their craft.

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📰 Inneresting #258 - Only the truth?

What does dramatizing real events do that can't be done with a documentary or the primary sources?

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🤡 Inneresting #257 - Are we taking this seriously?

Tone is a conscious point-of-view communicated by the writer. But are we talking about style or vibes?

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🙃 Inneresting #256 - Learning the Wrong Lessons

Aesop would never.

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🏳️ Inneresting #255 - Taking the L

When there's no way to win, what's there to do?