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My coworker has been asking me to read Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices trilogy for quite some time. I tried her original...

If we think of this fight sequence as a complete story, we've reached the "Dark Night of the Soul," moment. Things have gotten as dark as they can get. Mustang and Havoc are down, presumably left for dead, and now the story shifts back to Barry, Alphonse and Riza. There's some brief (but important) set up for a future conflict for Alphonse. (This isn't important to the fight at hand, but it's important to the larger story, and remember these rules for good writing: set up, pa

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is not a perfect book. It is, however, a very good book, and damn if it didn't make me feel something....

This blog post explores the relationship between dialogue and setting and why some words are more suited for certain worlds than others.

Before Avatar leaves Netflix, I'm trying to get all my friends to watch it. It's not just a kids show, I tell them. It's really, really...

When I mention the movie The Dark Knight and dialogue, which quotes first come to mind? Is it this one? Or perhaps this one? Or perhaps...

This summer I'm teaching a workshop on common character arcs, and as I prepare for it, I'm wondering if I have anything new to add to the...

How to show and tell in screenwriting by looking at Fleabag as an example.

What Captain America can teach us about positive masculinity and feminism.

Characters from The Princess Bride help illustrate the difference between Heroes, Main Characters and Protagonist in stories.