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2015

The Ultimate Story Checklist: The 40 Year Old Virginoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2015
Sunday, I promise!original ↗
10 Apr 2015
Delayed!original ↗
7 Apr 2015
Rulebook Casefile: Big Decisions and the Midpoint Disasteroriginal ↗
3 Apr 2015
Genre Structures, Addendum: Charting the Big Dilemmasoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2015
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Have At Least Six Painful Decisionsoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
The Rest of the Checklists Are Uporiginal ↗
27 Mar 2015
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Don’t Let it Write Itselforiginal ↗
25 Mar 2015
Rulebook Casefile: One Power-Packed Scene in Sunset Boulevardoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2015
How to Generate an Idea, Addendum: Tweak the Right and Left Simultaneouslyoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2015
How to Generate an Idea, Addendum: Ask “What If It’s All True?”original ↗
18 Mar 2015
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Plant Solutions as Problemsoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2015
Storyteller's Rulebook: Combine An Old Generic With A New Specificoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2015
Rulebook Casefile: Everything and the Kitchen Sink in the “Breaking Bad” Pilotoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2015
Straying from the Party Line: Sacrificing the Other Characters In Favor of the Lead in “Breaking Bad”original ↗
8 Mar 2015
Straying from the Party Line: The Lack of Hard Choices in “Breaking Bad”original ↗
5 Mar 2015
Storytellers Rulebook: Save Your Flashforwards For Stories With (Initially) Passive Heroesoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2015
The Ultimate Pilot Checklist: Breaking Badoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2015
Edge of Tomorrow Meddler Week, Part 4: The Ridiculous (and All-Too-Familiar) Phony-Sacrifice Endingoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2015
Edge of Tomorrow Meddler Week, Part 3: We Always Come In Lateoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2015
Edge of Tomorrow Meddler Week, Part 2: The Hero is An Everymanoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2015
Edge of Tomorrow Meddler Week, Part 1: It Ignores Its Own Meaningoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2015
New Oscar Podcastoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #1: Boyhoodoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #2: Selma (And Storyteller’s Rulebook: The "Ironic How" is Better than the "Ironic What")original ↗
19 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #3: Whiplashoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #4: Birdmanoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #5: Nightcrawleroriginal ↗
15 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #6: Guardians of the Galaxyoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #7: The Lego Movieoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2015
Best of 2014: #8: Captain America: The Winter Soldieroriginal ↗
11 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #9: Snowpierceroriginal ↗
10 Feb 2015
Best of 2014, #10: Dawn of the Planet of the Apesoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2015
The Meddler: Gone Girl (Book and Movie), Part 3: The Three Big Pregnancy Problemsoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2015
The Meddler: Gone Girl (Book and Movie), Part 2: Amy’s Nonsensical Planoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2015
Gone Girl Meddler Week, Part 1: Where the Movie Blows Itoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2015
It's Alive?original ↗
27 Jan 2015

2014

8 More Satisfying Ways that Serial Could Have Endedoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2014
New Narrative Breakdown Podcast on Unreliable Narratives!original ↗
17 Dec 2014
Straying From the Party Line: Saying What They Wouldn't Say in Do the Right Thingoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Tricky Tone of Do the Right Thingoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Let Your Characters Re-Label Themselvesoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Ironic Sequence of Events in Do the Right Thingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2014
I, Too, Have Thoughts About Serial...original ↗
30 Nov 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Do the Right Thing's Omniscient POVoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Do the Right Thing's Passive Protagonist That’s Not Solving a Large Problem!original ↗
25 Nov 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Hero Has to Fundamentally Change the Storyoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2014
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Do the Right Thingoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2014
Sick Family Weekoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Real Life Head-Heart-Gut Trios in “Humans of New York”original ↗
31 Oct 2014
Storyteller's Rulebook: Kid Logic in "Humans of New York"original ↗
30 Oct 2014
Storyteller's Rulebook: Keeping the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange in Humans of New Yorkoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Empathy in "Humans of New York"original ↗
28 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Humans of New York #1original ↗
26 Oct 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Prophesies Suck, Legacies Rockoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Value of a Counterintuitive Metaphor Family in Star Warsoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Luke as Emotional Manipulator in Star Warsoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Drop Some Half Factsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Way the Worlds Work in Star Warsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Shaggy Dog Storytelling in Star Warsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Luke's Late Introduction in Star Warsoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2014
My Response to James: Why Do We Like Luke in Star Wars?original ↗
10 Oct 2014
Guest Expert James Kennedy On Why We Love Luke Skywalker, Part 3original ↗
9 Oct 2014
Guest Expert James Kennedy On Why We Love Luke Skywalker, Part 2original ↗
8 Oct 2014
Guest Expert James Kennedy On Why We Love Luke Skywalker, Part 1original ↗
7 Oct 2014
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Star Warsoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Parallel Characters in Raising Arizonaoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2014
Storyteller's Rulebook: The Best Voiceover is Unreliable Voiceoveroriginal ↗
1 Oct 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The (Strange) Way the World Works in Raising Arizonaoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Tidy Conclusion of Raising Arizonaoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Telling vs Showing in Raising Arizonaoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2014
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Raising Arizonaoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2014
The Ironic Statement of Theme on "Community"original ↗
19 Sept 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Framing Device (and Unsafe Space) on Communityoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Unambiguous Right and Wrong on “Community”original ↗
16 Sept 2014
The Ultimate Pilot Story Checklist: Communityoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Disposable POV Character on “CSI”original ↗
11 Sept 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Dramatic Questions on CSIoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Undifferentiated Philosophies on "CSI"original ↗
9 Sept 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Lack of Decision Making Power on “CSI”original ↗
9 Sept 2014
The Ultimate Pilot Story Checklist: CSIoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2014
The Ultimate Pilot Story Checklist v4!original ↗
2 Sept 2014
Welcome Reddit Users!original ↗
9 Aug 2014
Short Hiatusoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Your Ending Shouldn't Make Your “Point”original ↗
25 Jul 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Dialect vs. Syntax in “The Slaves’ War”original ↗
23 Jul 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: More Thoughts on Object Exchangesoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: The Ending Should Lean Towards One Side of the Thematic Dilemmaoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2014
How to Manage Expectations, Addendum: Establish the Nature of the Jeopardyoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2014
How to Build a Scene, Addendum: Leave the Hero and/or the Audience with a Growing Hope and/or Fearoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2014
How to Create a Compelling Character, Addendum: More Thoughts on the Moment of Humanityoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2014
How to Create a Compelling Character, Addendum: The Character Must Feel Compelled to Let People Know About His or Her Unique Perspective, One Way or Anotheroriginal ↗
9 Jul 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Differentiating the Many Types of Ironyoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2014
Irony in Dialogue, Part 3: Ironic Contrast Between Word and Deedoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2014
Irony in Dialogue, Part 2: Dramatic Irony (aka, A Gap Between What They Say and What We Know)original ↗
2 Jul 2014
Irony in Dialogue, Part 1: Intentional Ironyoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2014
The Big Idea, Addendum: The Ironic Conclusionoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2014
The Big Idea, Addendum: More Thoughts on the Ironic Conceptoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2014
New Scheduleoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2014
The New Checklist is Up!original ↗
22 Jun 2014
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