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Dirty Trick
Mikey stands at the bank teller wicket, anxiously watching as the teller speaks to her manager. He braces himself as she returns, obsessing ...
Wish You Were Here
A love triangle with a twist. Melissa is a young woman from Shanghai living in Montreal. For the last two years she has been obsessed with her ...
Moments
A grown man transports himself in a vivid memory. He is 10 year-old boy living in the country with a father struggling with depression and ...
Baggage
Unbeknownst to one another, a journalist and a young woman share a flight. In a hurry to get to their hotels, they grab each other's luggage by ...
Superbald!
A man is obsessed with losing his hair. He experiences five distinct stages, the same stages anyone experiences when they deal with loss. They ...
The Ascent of Man
Bruce McCall's May 14, 2007 cover of The New Yorker is about man's obsession with progress and technology. The artwork features an ape on a ...
Writer's Block Part 1: The Concept
Your story will be strongest if you know, in a nutshell, what your story is about. It can be stated in the simplest of terms; in fact it's a ...
Writer's Block Part 2: Conflict
Every story must have conflict. You can make an experimental film that is only about images or sounds. But to tell a narrative story there must ...
Writer's Block Part 3: The Goal
Connected in some sense to conflict, your main character(s) has to want something at the outset. The conflict arises in the character's pursuit ...
Writer's Block Part 4: Theme
Good narrative stories generally have something to tell us about ourselves or our world. This is where the artist gets to really operate, ...
Writer's Block Part 5: Escalation
It's probably not enough to have a great concept, a goal for the main character, or even a powerful theme. A story still has to go somewhere. ...
Writer's Block Part 6: Contrast
A plot develops through characters' failures and successes. As much as the overall arc of a story should escalate toward the end, throughout ...
Writer's Block Part 7: Endings
Yup, the best stories have them. Even a cliffhanger that leaves a lot of questions is an ending. It's an ending that says "a whole new world ...