by Film School | Mar 4, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #167 How to Pick the Right Story How do you know if you’re writing the right story? I mean, we all know how long it takes to write something, we all know how much effort it takes. It seems like a valid question . . . why this story right now? How...
by Film School | Feb 25, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #166 How to Write the Perfect Crisis A rock and a hard place. The decisions that define the arc of a character, and indeed our own lives. This is the realm of the Crisis, one of the must-have components of a scene, act, story, or even series of stories....
by Film School | Feb 18, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #165 The Hardest Part of Storytelling Writing is hard. Often. Not all the time, certainly . . . writing is hard, it seems, until it’s not. For a while. And then it’s hard again. Writing is perhaps at it’s hardest when it doesn’t...
by Film School | Feb 11, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #164 How to Write a Great Ending Go out with a BANG! Of the three most basic parts of a story–beginning, middle, and end–the ending probably gets the most attention. A good one will get you the most forgiveness, and a bad one will certainly...
by Film School | Feb 4, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #163 Is it Okay for my Story to Change? A left turn. Off the rails. Sometimes, our story seems to have a mind of it’s own, and it changes as we’re writing it, perhaps even dramatically. Is . . . that okay? Or, is that some kind of red flag,...
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