“The finest writing not only reveals true character, but arcs or changes to that inner nature, for better or worse.” -Robert McKee In 1998 McKee signed my first edition hardback of STORY. He wrote: “To Karel: Tell the TRUTH!” Ironically with the quote at the top of this article, McKee is not telling ...

31 days ago · The Story Department · storydr.com by admin

Years ago I was friends with a woman who was overwhelmingly negative. There were plentiful reasons--difficult childhood, bad relationship, finances, job, etc. She made exceedingly poor decisions. The kinds of decisions that everyone around her--heck, total strangers--could see were decisions certain ...

37 days ago · Author Erica Orloff's Blog · ericaorloff.com/blog/index.htm by Erica Orloff () 31 references

An independent author’s quest Does spreading the literary word ever justify law-breaking? The scenario: You’ve written a book, lovingly given a year of your life to honing narrative and plot, subsequently been unable to get an agent for love or money and lounged in dejection for a while before final ...

45 days ago · The Melting Pot · martincororan.wordpress.com by elscubadiver

I love writing the synopsis. Love. It. It’s the easiest part of writing a book. Three pages? That’s 750 words. I write birthday cards that are longer than that! I owe my background in advertising and journalism for this love-love relationship. Plus, I have had nary a rejection based on a synopsis. O ...

68 days ago · the 5 randoms · the5randoms.wordpress.com by the5randoms 12 references

A structural overview of The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994). It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound - but it failed to win a single Os ...

73 days ago · The Story Department · storydr.com/wordpress by admin 1 reference

A structural overview of The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994). It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound - but it failed to win a single Os ...

73 days ago · The Story Department · thestorydepartment.com by admin 1 reference

A structural overview of The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994). It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Sound - but it failed to win a single Os ...

73 days ago · The Story Department · storydr.com by admin

I saw the season finale for Season5 last night, and I’m glad that it wasn’t as fume-inducing as people made it sound. It wasn’t a big deal, no big cliffhanger of what’s going to happen… which is good because that would probably kill me for a year. No uber bitchiness like some other episodes where [. ...

103 days ago · personal.amy-wong.com - A ... · personal.amy-wong.com by Amy 3 references

One of the things I love about living in the city is the access to movies, concerts and theatre. I've mentioned before that I belong to a cinema group. This week, we watched the powerful Australian movie September. A very restrained and moving account of a friendship between a white boy and an Abori ...

113 days ago · Barbwired... a writer's ... · wwwbarbarahannay.blogspot.com by Barb 2 references

In my recent post on character arcs and the Make-up Theory, I talked about how most contemporary fiction--at least fiction that is engrossing--has characters who have character arcs. The same is true in movies, and I was recently reminded of this. In the last week, I have seen two, count 'em, two mo ...

158 days ago · Word Strumpet · wordstrumpet.typepad.com/word_strumpet by Charlotte Dixon 20 references