Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
carriejonesbooks Last week, maybe a week ago, maybe 82 years ago, who knows, we talked about alternative plot structures. Much of American film and novels is built on what’s considered to…
Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy?
Do you want to be happy? It’s a question philosopher Sebastian Purcell asks his students every year. Do you want to be happy? For Purcell being happy has a lot…
Celestial Bodies, Sexy Knees and Story Structure via Robert McKee
You can learn a lot about culture by how it looks at what makes a good story and a good story structure. In Western culture right now, we tend to…
Strangeness Free-for-all
It ended up being a bit of a free-for-all as we talked about the strange things people do sometimes.
How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
So building a sympathetic character on the page is a lot like being a sympathetic character in real life. This sympathetic character is basically the opposite of a butt-hole. There’s…