Your Story: It’s All in the Mix
You may be aware of my penchant for analogies. A tool that paints a clear picture of the complexities and choices and skillsets involved in writing a great story. I did a workshop this weekend and managed to cram about eight of them into a single 50-minute lecture. Only one person fled the room. I […]
Elevate Your Story Through the Sublime – and Subliminal – Use of Sub-Text
All stories have sub-text. No exceptions. Because life itself is riddled with it. The real issue for writers, then – the real opportunity – becomes this: will anyone notice? Will the sub-text of your story contribute to a sense of tension, emotional layering and expositional opportunities? An under-appreciated truth: in a world full of genre-based […]
The Power of Symbolism: A Guest Post by Nann Dunne
by Nann Dunne Recently, I watched an episode of CSI:NY that had a scene that impressed me enough to stick in my mind. In the scene setup, the character Jo, a policewoman played by Sela Ward, accompanies a female witness home. Shortly after the woman goes into her bedroom to get some clothes, Jo calls […]
The Three Layers of Story Engineering, Architecture, and Art
Everything can be broken down. Plant and animal. Fact and fallacy. Art and science. Sliced, diced, eviscerated, deconstructed, analyzed, charted, graphed, melted, spectra-analyzed and debated. Sometimes this yields precision, other times a vague generality. Either way, from this process of breakdown comes illumination. Visibility. Clarity of purpose, design and effectiveness. And then… often only then… […]
Produce… X 3
Please click HERE to see an interview/discussion I had with Authornomics.com, who ask some great questions about story architecture, process and why it works. Then come on back to read another piece from regular Storyfix contributor Art Holcomb. Produce, Produce, Produce a guest post by Art Holcomb “Two pieces of paper hang above my […]
So What’s Your Story(ies)?
Usually, when you let it slip that you’re a writer, the response is, “what do you write?” As if you’d just said the most unexpected thing possible. Everybody’s a writer, it seems (that comes out later), but hardly anyone admits it. And when you say “novels” or “screenplays,” one of two things is likely to […]