SUBsegment 6: A Brief History of the Super-hero as Protagonist In an earlier times we would have no doubt had this discussion solely about anti-heroes. We would have talked Falstaff […]

Segment 6: The Importance of Your Antagonist I’ve gone on to such lengths about the protagonist and how to write her because I believe so stridently in the importance of […]

Segment 5 Moving from Skepticism to Conviction: (31) To keep the segment title in a manageable length range, I did not write it in the clearest fashion possible. It should […]

Segment 4: The Artist’s Contract with her Audience: We agree to view what you make as Art as long as you understand that we want to see ourselves in the […]

Segment 3: Creating the Perfect Imbalance between Skill and Motivation Now that you know what you’re trying to achieve, how do you go about achieving it? Break the events of […]

Remember back to what you were thinking during There Will Be Blood just after the well has exploded and taken HW’s hearing with it. If you’re anything like me, you […]

Segment 2: Finding the Right Protagonist Now that you’ve determined your theme, and sanded it until it will fit on an average sized bumper sticker, what do you do next? […]