Recently I was going through my kindle library and I came across the "10-Day Screenplay" by Darrin Donnelly and Travis Donelly. It's been a long time since I read it, and so I started to flick through the pages. I know the first time I read it, I thought it presented nothing new on the …
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A Story Blueprint for the Action / Adventure genre
Over the last three blogs I have looked at the five core elements of any story design: The Protagonist's Characterisation The Big Problem or Opportunity that enters their life and acts as the Catalyst for the Central Conflict Opposition - Antagonist forces and obstacles that stand in his/her way A Story World A Satisfying Resolution. …
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The Sequence Method
There is a lot a novelist can learn about storytelling from the movie industry. Stories in novels and movies differ only by the nature of the medium through which they are presented. The same story dynamics apply to both mediums. In my previous two blogs I looked at two different variations of the Three-Act Structure …
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