Tag Archives: screenwriting

Structure in Folktales

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

I found a great post on story and movie structure on one of the blogs I follow, Albert Berg’s Unsanity Files.  http://unsanityfiles.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/building-on-the-bones-or-why-structure-doesnt-have-to-be-boring/ Despite Mr. Berg’s caution that discussions of structure has been known to cause some Californian’s heads to explode, … Continue reading →

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Summer Writing Contests

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

It seems like the “contest scene” picks up steam during the second half of the year.  I know there are round-the-calendar listings, but I tend to jot the URL’s on postIt notes and lose them, so I mostly wait for … Continue reading →

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Water for Elephants: A Movie Review

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

There surely has been a drought this spring of movies worth venturing out to see, so I was pleased when Water for Elephants, based on a best selling novel, hit the theaters. The story is narrated by ninety year old … Continue reading →

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The Three Act Structure

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

In his book, Plot and Structure, (see the link in my previous post), author and speaker, James Scott Bell, offers this definition of his terms.  Plot concerns the elements of a story, what happens.  Structure is about the timing of … Continue reading →

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Throughlines in Novels and Screenplays

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

I have posted before on how much I learn from screenwriters.  I would even argue that film has become the groundbreaking medium in the world of storytelling.  Yesterday, for instance, I received a newsletter on writing for children with a … Continue reading →

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Between a Plot and a Hard place

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Okay, okay, so I should be pun-ished for a title like that.  This post is really about finding one’s own right brain/left brain balance in plotting a novel, but I couldn’t work that into a catchy phrase. The topic was … Continue reading →

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