Archetypal Divides
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 […]
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The Jim Morrison Challenge
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 […]
Verbal Brawls in Ambiguous Ink
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 […]
The Snake Oil Salesman of Hope
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 […]
Leaving the Story Chrysalis
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 […]
An Infinite Case of Deja Vu
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? […]
A Misfiring Buick in Toledo
On Objection Two aka The Heisenberg’s Matrices Objection This objection turns on the idea that life is random or: Nothing happens for a reason. But wait… isn’t that a… theme. […]
The Primacy of Theme
Part One: A Theoretical Approach Segment 1 It All Starts With Theme Part one of this essay will focus on designing a set of tools that will march your script […]
Bowdlerizing Kant
A (screen)Writer’s Groundwork Introduction: The following essay is divided into three parts: Part One: A Theoretical Approach Part Two: A Practical Approach Part Three: An Experimental Approach Part One isolates […]
Searching for Charlie Kaufman 