by Film School | Mar 18, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #169 How and When to Pivot Sometimes, slogging through the mud is the wrong choice. Barreling ahead with complete tunnel vision and shutting out any and all other possibilities can be foolhardy and actually hinder progress. So, how do you know when to...
by Film School | Mar 11, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #168 How to Write an Amazing Character Write a character you fall in love with. We’ve all heard that advice, but HOW DO YOU DO THAT? How can we create a character who feels real, that people will connect with, be thrilled by, want to cosplay . . ....
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...
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