2023 Fave First Watches (A Video Countdown)
Sorry for the absence, have some movie recs!!!
101 Things I Learned About Fiction from Film
A newsletter for writers who love (or want to love!) movies.
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Read 3 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 2 years.
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Just Try to Feel It
Or: Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023) unexplained
What's My Motivation: Ocean's Eleven (2001), dir. Steven Soderbergh
New format! How important are character motivations? How long can you go without having to reveal them?
4. Three stages of filmmaking
About my writing process and how I use filmmaking as a metaphor to overcome fears of the blank page and terrible first drafts
The Writing Life (important announcements!)
An apology and a treat.
3. Show, don't tell
How strict should we be with the cardinal rule of storytelling? Can stories be all-tell or show-and-tell? Featuring Game of Thrones, Inception (2010), and Spider-Man 2 (2004)
BONUS: My 2022 in Film (a video countdown)
Showing love for the movies I enjoyed seeing most last year, from EEAAO to the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2. Start Late
When should a story start? On film budgets, writing economically, and finding the correct "beginning" with Fresh (2022) and Drive My Car (2021)
1. Start Strong
What I learned about memorable openings from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
0. What I Learned About Fiction, I Learned from Film
An intro