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2020

Not On the Best of 2019 Listoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2020
Podcast Episode 15: Should Novelists Follow Screenwriting Advice, featuring Parker Peevyhouseoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2020
Believe Care Invest: Rahel in Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things”original ↗
13 Jan 2020
Believe Care Invest: Sethe and Others in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”original ↗
10 Jan 2020
Believe, Care, Invest: Our Choice of Heroes in George R. R. Martin’s “A Game of Thrones”original ↗
5 Jan 2020
Celebrating 10 Yearsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2020

2019

Podcast Episode 14: Involuntary Notesoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2019
Believe Care Invest: Arthur Dent in Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”original ↗
12 Dec 2019
Believe Care Invest: Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games”original ↗
10 Dec 2019
Believe Care Invest: Stanley Yelnats in Louis Sachar’s “Holes”original ↗
8 Dec 2019
Believe Care Invest: Meg Murry in Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time”original ↗
5 Dec 2019
Believe, Care, Invest: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2019
Podcast Episode 13: The Moment of Graceoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2019
Okay, Be Back in a Week or Twooriginal ↗
13 Oct 2019
Get Out: The Archiveoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2019
Rulebook Casefile: Wrapping Up the Internal and External Journeys of “Get Out”original ↗
9 Oct 2019
Straying from the Party Line: Chris’s Lack of Metaphor Family, Argument Tactic, Strong Motivation, Goals, Insistence, and Decision-Making Ability in “Get Out”original ↗
6 Oct 2019
Grace in "Toy Story" with James Kennedyoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2019
Skills, Grace, Trust, and Suffering with James Kennedyoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2019
Rulebook Casefile: Ironic Special Skills in “Get Out”original ↗
1 Oct 2019
Rulebook Casefile: National Pain in “Get Out”original ↗
29 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: Know More Than You Show in “Get Out”original ↗
27 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: Marketable Imagery in Get Outoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Straying from the Party Line (Except for the Deleted Scenes): Chris Never Gets His Hopes Up in “Get Out”original ↗
24 Sept 2019
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Get Outoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2019
Updated Tagsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2019
Born a Crime: The Archiveoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2019
Lady Bird: The Archiveoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: A Small Thematic Detail in “Lady Bird”original ↗
13 Sept 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Have Your Hero Take Two Steps Forward and One Step Backoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Sometimes the Hard Way is the Bad Wayoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: How to Write a Comedy Without Jokesoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: The Writer Gives the Villain Her Humanity in “Lady Bird”original ↗
8 Sept 2019
Rulebook Casefile: The Crucial Use of a “Holy Crap” Moment in “Lady Bird”original ↗
6 Sept 2019
The Ultimate Story Checklist: Lady Birdoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2019
Podcast Episode 12: Hollywoodizationoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2019
Happy Labor Day (New Content Resumes Tomorrow!)original ↗
2 Sept 2019
Nice Review from K. M. Weilandoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2019
Podcast Episode 11: Heroic Self-Interest with Geoff Bettsoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2019
Fantastic News!original ↗
7 Jun 2019
Podcast Episode 10: More Fun with Jonathan Auxieroriginal ↗
20 May 2019
This Looks Cooloriginal ↗
24 Apr 2019
Sorry about the lack of posts! And my obligatory MCU list!original ↗
22 Apr 2019
How to Write a Memoir: Have a Skewed Point of Vieworiginal ↗
12 Apr 2019
Rulebook Casefile: Unique Relationships in “Born a Crime”original ↗
10 Apr 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Walk the Thin Line Between Rascal and Rottenoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2019
How to Write a Memoir: Digress Deftlyoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2019
How to Write a Memoir: Establish that You Were in the Thick of Itoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2019
The Annotation Project: Born a Crimeoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2019
Storyteller's Rulebook: How People Really Talkoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2019
Little Breakoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2019
Have at Least Six Painful Decisions: The Archiveoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2019
Educated: The Archiveoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2019
Best of 2018, #1: The Favourite (And How Audiences Pick Their Favorites)original ↗
22 Feb 2019
Best of 2018 , #2: Black Panther (and Rise Above Your Genre's Limitations)original ↗
20 Feb 2019
Best of 2018, #3: Vice (and Who Has the Right to Tell a Story?)original ↗
17 Feb 2019
Best of 2018, #5: If Beale Street Could Talk and #4: Romaoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2019
Best of 2018: Runners Up 10-6original ↗
13 Feb 2019
Not on the Best of 2018 List: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019
Best of 2018 Intro and Why Bohemian Rhapsody Didn’t Make the Listoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2019
Believe, Care, Invest in “Educated”original ↗
6 Feb 2019
Negative Example Posts: The Archiveoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2019
How to Write a Memoir: Each Chapter Should Tell a Storyoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2019
Podcast Episode 9: Positive Passivity!original ↗
29 Jan 2019
How to Write a Memoir: Establish Your Unreliabilityoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: The Necessity of Personifying Nature in “Educated”original ↗
24 Jan 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: A Different Type of Agency in “Educated”original ↗
23 Jan 2019
The Annotation Project: Educatedoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2019
A Wrinkle in Time: The Archiveoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2019
Pet Peeve: Please Don’t Give Kids a “Word of the Day” Calendaroriginal ↗
16 Jan 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Understand Your Reader’s Psychologyoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2019
Books Vs. Movies: Taking Out the Heart of “A Wrinkle in Time”original ↗
10 Jan 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: It’s Okay to Put Some Distance Between the Reader and the Characteroriginal ↗
9 Jan 2019
New Video: Ironyoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2019
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Send Your Hero on External and Internal Questsoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2019

2018

The Annotation Project: A Wrinkle in Timeoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2018
The Ten Urges That Stories Can Satisfyoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2018
The God of Small Things: The Archiveoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2018
Podcast Episode 8: The Jedi in Declineoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2018
Rulebook Casefile: The Power and Peril of the “Put a Pin in It” Sceneoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2018
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Capture the Logic of Childhoodoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2018
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Help Us Get Our Feet on the Ground (Or Don’t, If That’s What You’d Prefer)original ↗
11 Nov 2018
Straying from the Party Line: The Abundance of Adjectives and Adverbs in “The God of Small Things”original ↗
9 Nov 2018
Storyteller’s Rulebook: Cut Most of Your Adjectives and Adverbsoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2018
The Annotation Project: The God of Small Thingsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2018
Killing Floor: The Archiveoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2018
Self Editing Advice from Novelist Trent Reedyoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2018
Podcast Episode 7: Expectations and OODA Loopsoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2018
So Why Do David Remnick and Malcolm Gladwell Like Jack Reacher So Much?original ↗
26 Oct 2018
How To Plot a Mystery: How to Get Your Hero Into and Out of Troubleoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2018
Rulebook Casefile: News You Can Use in "Killing Floor"original ↗
21 Oct 2018
Straying from the Party Line: The Big Motivation Hole (And Big Coincidence) in “Killing Floor”original ↗
19 Oct 2018
Why Do They Only Want Fifteen Pages?original ↗
17 Oct 2018
The Annotation Project: Killing Floororiginal ↗
14 Oct 2018
The Good Place: The Archiveoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2018
Selma: The Archiveoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2018
Rulebook Casefile: The Peril of Bad Scenework in Justice Leagueoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2018
Rulebook Casefile: Act Breaks in Modern Network Sitcomsoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2018
Straying from the Party Line: The Unsustainability of “The Good Place”original ↗
3 Oct 2018
Rulebook Casefile: Head-Heart-Gut in “The Good Place”original ↗
30 Sept 2018
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