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2014

I Shall Returnoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2014
Podcasting and Procreatingoriginal ↗
29 May 2014
Construction in Progress (With a Frozen Discussion in the Comments!)original ↗
29 Apr 2014
Your Input Requested: A Preview of Checklist v5!original ↗
17 Apr 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Way the World Works in The Bourne Identityoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Bourne Identity’s Everyman that Isn’toriginal ↗
13 Apr 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Tone Maintenance in The Bourne Identityoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Three Henchman Structure of The Bourne Identityoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 2 (When Invisibles Go Too Far!)original ↗
9 Apr 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Bourne Identity, Part 1original ↗
8 Apr 2014
The Ultimate Story Checklist: The Bourne Identityoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Value of the Untidy Gaps in Blue Velvetoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Overcoming Liabilities with Unique Imagery in Blue Velvetoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2014
Straying from the Party Line: The Inauthentic Setting of Blue Velvetoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2014
Straying from the Party Line: Lack of Motivation in Blue Velvetoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2014
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Blue Velvetoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2014
Finally: the Corrected Statement of Philosophy on "How I Met Your Mother"original ↗
27 Mar 2014
Reader Survey: When Has This Advice Inhibited You?original ↗
23 Mar 2014
A Brief Siestaoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook #206: Have a Reversible Metaphororiginal ↗
14 Mar 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Unique Point of Entry in “How I Met Your Mother”original ↗
13 Mar 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Vainglorious Moment of Humanity in “How I Met Your Mother”original ↗
12 Mar 2014
Straying From the Party Line: How I Met Your Motheroriginal ↗
11 Mar 2014
The Ultimate TV Pilot Checklist: How I Met Your Motheroriginal ↗
9 Mar 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Predicting National Pain in “24”original ↗
7 Mar 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Character Descriptions in the “24” Pilot Scriptoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2014
How to Create a TV Show, Addendum: Create Sparksoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2014
Straying From the Party Line: No POV Character in 24original ↗
4 Mar 2014
The Ultimate TV Pilot Checklist: 24original ↗
2 Mar 2014
Best of 2013 #1: American Hustle (Assets, Liabilities, Interrupted Dialogue, and Cast How They Feel))original ↗
28 Feb 2014
Storyteller’s Rulebook #205: Hurt Your Hero In a Way That Would Only Hurt Your Herooriginal ↗
27 Feb 2014
Storyteller's Rulebook #204: Let Us Empathize with the Motivation, But Don’t Force Us to Empathize with the Logicoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2014
Storyteller's Rulebook #203: Everybody Can’t Have the Same Metaphor Familyoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #1, Part 1: The Most Remarkable Thing About American Hustleoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #2, Part 2: Concerns About 12 Years a Slaveoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #2, Part 1: What’s Great About 12 Years a Slaveoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #3: Gravity (Motivation, Rules, and Ticking Clocks)original ↗
18 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #4: Dallas Buyers Club (Process, Pace, and Motivation)original ↗
16 Feb 2014
Best of 2013 #5: The Spectacular Now (Casting, Observations, and Screw-Ups)original ↗
14 Feb 2014
Best Hollywood Movies of 2013, Runners-Up 8, 7, and 6original ↗
13 Feb 2014
Best Hollywood Movies of 2013, Runners-Up 10 and 9original ↗
12 Feb 2014
Best of 2013: Hollywood Vs. Indiewoodoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2014
Best of 2013, Part 1: Hollywood in Revieworiginal ↗
9 Feb 2014
New Sidebar Featureoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Characters Only Wanting What They Want In a Lonely Placeoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Exchange of an Object in The Shiningoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2014
Sad Sad Sad Dayoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: The Moral Dilemmas Throughout Casablancaoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Morally Ascending in Alienoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Use of a (Literal) Framing Device in Donnie Brascooriginal ↗
30 Jan 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Empathy for All in Bridesmaidsoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Observations in How to Train Your Dragonoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2014
New Checklist and Rulebook Casefile: Un-Selfless Motivation in Silence of the Lambsoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Finale: Be Strategicoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Part 5: Be Systematicoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Part 4: Create Buy-Inoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Part 3: Be Persuasive…original ↗
21 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Part 2: Be Charitableoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2014
How to Give and Receive Notes, Part 1: Be Calmoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2014
Rulebook Casefile: Invoking National Pain on “Cheers”original ↗
16 Jan 2014
Straying from the Party Line: “Cheers”original ↗
15 Jan 2014
The Ultimate TV Pilot Checklist: Cheersoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2014
What's the Matter with Hollywood in 2013, Part 5: Hollywood vs. The Hobbitoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2014
What's the Matter with Hollywood in 2013, Part 4: Villains are Dehumanized and Lionized at the Same Timeoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2014
What's the Matter with Hollywood in 2013, Part 3: Filmmakers Despise Their Idealistic Source Materialoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2014
What's the Matter with Hollywood in 2013, Part 2: The Golden Geese are Dying of Exhaustionoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2014
What's the Matter with Hollywood in 2013, Part 1: High Stakes Can Get Boringoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2014
Rulebook Casefile: How “Mad Men” Creates Its Own Sense of Right and Wrongoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2014
Rulebook Casefile: The Importance of Being Good at Your Job in “Mad Men”original ↗
1 Jan 2014
Happy New Year!original ↗
1 Jan 2014

2013

Straying from the Party Line: “Mad Men” (Ensemble and POV)original ↗
31 Dec 2013
The Ultimate TV Pilot Checklist: Mad Menoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2013
What the Internet Was Made For: Star Wars Trivia Debates!original ↗
29 Dec 2013
The 5 Days of Christmas, Day 5original ↗
27 Dec 2013
The 5 Days of Christmas, Day 4original ↗
26 Dec 2013
The 5 Days of Christmas, Day 3original ↗
25 Dec 2013
The 5 Days of Christmas, Day 2original ↗
24 Dec 2013
The 5 Days of Christmas, Day 1original ↗
22 Dec 2013
The TV Pilot Checklist v2original ↗
20 Dec 2013
Rulebook Casefile: Morally Descending in The Avengers and Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2013
What’s the Matter With Hollywood: Empty Emotion, Consequence-less Sacrificeoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2013
Storyteller's Rulebook #202: The Internal Conflict Must Climax at the Same Time As (or After) the External Conflictoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2013
Storyteller's Rulebook #201: Closure is the Opposite of Emotion aka Don’t Let Your Characters Read the Script!original ↗
15 Dec 2013
Rulebook Casefile: Hypocritical Invocation of National Pain in Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2013
Two Rulebook Casefiles: The Villain Need a Goal and Clash of Personalities in Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2013
Rulebook Casefile: Writing for 3D and CGI in Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2013
What's the Matter With Hollywood: Those "American" Accentsoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2013
Podcast AND Storyteller's Rulebook #200: Don’t Ignore the Irony Inherent in Your Premiseoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2013
Rulebook Casefile: The Muddled Metaphor of Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2013
Rulebook Casefile: The Need to Simplify It in Pacific Rimoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2013
Storyteller's Rulebook #199: Never Stop Asking “Why Don’t They Just…”original ↗
4 Dec 2013
Storyteller's Rulebook #198: Everything You Know About “Everything You Know is Wrong” is Wrongoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2013
Introducing: Mediocre Modern Movies Week(s)!original ↗
1 Dec 2013
This is Awesome.original ↗
28 Nov 2013
Happy Thanksgiving, Turkeys!original ↗
25 Nov 2013
Roundtable Discussion: The Monotonous Intensity Problemoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2013
So How Are We Doing?original ↗
21 Nov 2013
Rulebook Casefile: Hidden Flip-Side-Strengths in Sidewaysoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2013
Straying from the Party Line / Rulebook Casefile: The Low-Concept Movie and the “Holy Crap!” Scenes in Sidewaysoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Sidewaysoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2013
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