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Jul 27, 2021
Your Editor Is Not ‘Trying to Get You.’
So Don’t Treat Him like a Debating Combatant
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Jan 6, 2021
Boring Subjects Are a Myth
Make them count through storytelling
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Apr 22, 2020
Time-Travel Gives Your Hero Power, but Beware of the Danger to Your Plot
Plotting rules and lessons to…
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Mar 6, 2020
“Mr. Tolstoy, How Do I Write Believable Characters?”
Some theory and writing prompts to show true…
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Feb 25, 2020
If You Feel Bad for Not Getting Readers, Think of Gutenberg’s 300 Sheep
Only your story can protect…
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Florian Fuehren
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Modern Poetics
Nov 5, 2019
On Repetition of Scenes, Character Development, and Dialogue Pace in “After Life”
A breakdown of S1:E3
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Oct 7, 2019
Tropes, Conflict & Scene Structure in Ricky Gervais’ “After Life”
Another Breakdown of character…
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Oct 4, 2019
Plot, Dialogue & Genre in Ricky Gervais’ “After Life”
A Breakdown of plot and character motivation in S1:E1
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Modern Poetics is all about the actual mechanics of writing, from plot structure to the foundation of a metaphor. It always comes down to one essential question: How is it made?
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