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🍰 #284 - Layered Narrative Structures

This week's newsletter covers examples of layered storytelling, looking at the how and why of stories that play with the audience's understanding of what they're seeing.

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🎨 #283 - Expanding your palette

This week's newsletter features links and examples highlighting how screenwriters can target descriptions of color to create vivid imagery and memorable motifs.

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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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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

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🎞️ #278 - Do we need a canon?

"I can't believe you haven't seen (x)!" In Scriptnotes episode 713, Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan talked briefly with John about how one element of film school is how it forces you to watch a lot of things you wouldn't necessarily seek