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Arcane – 10 lessons from the Netflix show
Just finished watching the first season of Arcane on Netflix and...I was surprised how much I absolutely loved what is ultimately: a video game adaptationof a game that I played for yearsthat I couldn't remember two story or lore beats from* So perhaps, just like I did with Neon Genesis Evangelion, we can put on our writer-filmmaker-thinky caps and take a look at this gorgeous, incredibly well made animated science-fantasy show. *I think my boy Timo is from a jungle? The Setting is the Story is the Setting I lied above, I wasn't really all that surprised I loved Arcane. It's a Science Fantasy [...]
Review: Ichor Falls by Kris Straub
I'm bad at spooks. Case in point, I didn't even know Kris Straub was an internet horror icon until 2018, and I've known about the guy since like 2004. I'm not much better at Halloween. I have been known to assemble a costume, sometimes a monstrosity of my own design (see below), but I don't reliably immerse myself in creeps and crawls every October. It's a sporadic urge based on location and social circle and whether or not the SOMA teaser "Vivarium" had come out that summer. This year I wanted to make an effort of it, so I went on a Kris Straub [...]
Writing the Perfect Fight
I've become somewhat known as a person who writes solid action, so I thought I'd share some thoughts on 'fight scene theory'. In other words, what do I think I know about how to make fights in stories dramatic and compelling? This theory is the result of a process I call 'modeling' - that is, to learn how to do something I'm going to take apart and analyze and imitate a successful version of that thing. As a result, none of it is true. The theory: A great fight scene is the finite expenditure of limited resources by two or more vulnerable parties. Secondary [...]