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The Final Moments of Putting a Story Together
It's a new year. And with that new year I'm running through my creative works-in-progress. Evaluate, stop, go, that sort of thing. At any given time I'm 'marinating' several stories. I've talked in a YouTube video how there's a moment a project feels right to me to begin real work on it. Before that it's marinating. All the stuff in my brain is just soaking into each other and I keep adding bits until something clicks. Until that foothold forms and I can climb. Lots of metaphors over here too, apparently. When a project is getting warmer and it's clear it's almost ready, I'll [...]
I made two Channel 101 shows this year.
It's been a long time coming, but somehow, I've started directing again in earnest. It's a good feeling. I've known for about a year now that I wanted to shoot something, but I took my time to be smart and deliberate about projects. Channel 101 is great fun but ultimately a chance to practice...a distraction. For me anyway. So I wanted to make sure I didn't burn too much time and money when I could be writing. And so, myriad possible projects came and went. Including some that went into pre-production and ended up with test footage and a bunch of other stuff you [...]
MORE Learning from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Learning From Evangelion The END of Learning From Evangelion It's time again for another list of hot storytelling techniques gleaned from Evangelion, which remains a slick and complex TV show. And now we can all watch it on Netflix. Use Inversions! As in, when something good happens, something bad happens. And vice versa. Traditional writing education, especially screenwriting, says your midpoint of your story should have a 'false' victory or defeat, but also a defeat or victory. Think about how Ben Kenobi kicks it to the Jedi afterlife but also the group escapes the Death Star (but also they are followed to the hidden [...]