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How to use flashbacks effectively: Nairobi dying (La Casa de Papel)
La Casa de Papel: Nairobi tells a story to rile her troops up
Four Types of Writing
Creating a Character: the oblivious wife
Learn while enjoying fiction
A Pat on the Back
How to use an Emotion Thesaurus
The TK Filler
What makes me laugh: A Rant by Ken, Mad Men
Writing Concept: Want vs Need
World Building session, connecting life experience to my world
Oxford Definition Artifact
Sharing raw evidence of my process was oddly satisfying.
My writing day without progress, world building
6/ the physical book is a holy reminder.
5/ How to share your work? Choose a scrap from today that tell its story.
4/ What to share with your scenius? Your work.
3/ Become a documentarian of your work. Using all forms of media collect the process, the drafts, the ideas.
2/ A scenius isn't about WHAT you bring to the conversation, it's about HOW you bring it.
1/ Creativity doesn't come from a bolt of lighting, it comes from a "scenius".
Identifying what obsessions to share.
What do you obsess over? Share that.
Flash Fiction #1
Character Creation: a raw cowboy
Working in Packets of Information: scene writing
Story Challenge #1
Mad Men: when the office takes a limitless drug
Plot Theme Character, attempt #2.
Pip's internal struggle
My therapy journey: Reality and Imagination
Sally's eyes on Don, a tense scene
Don changed by a bar of chocolate
Writing with flow, "It fell to the floors."
Packets from Questions
Fight club inspiration, fighting your survival instincts.
Top Down Life Management: Weekly Review
Top Down Life Management: Monthly Review
Top Down Life Management: Annual Review
What I learned about productivity in 2020: when distracted, make the task simpler
What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, during a session
What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, ending a session
What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, starting a session
What I learned about productivity in 2020: collecting information
What I learned about productivity in 2020: leverage
What I learned about productivity in 2020: the goal of productivity
What's your Story about?
In-media-res: when a story begins
"The psyche likes to make deals."
Small Character Arcs
Final Post for Manuscript #15 | my draft resources
Keep your eyes on the prize.
What if I told a story to...? (Your Target Audience)
Brainstorming Storyteller Voices
Writer vs Story teller in non-fiction | an example
The Concepts: COLLOQUIAL VS FORMAL
The Concepts: INTIMATE VS TELL
What emotions are evoked in Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang?
Short Reflection on 2020
The Concepts: SHOW VS TELL
The Concepts: PASSIVE VS ACTIVE
Come over here, sonny, I've got a story for you.
"Always read your writing out loud."
I have a story to tell.
Let's hack our way to good writing.
The Brain verse The Mind
Scene Editing Questions: where is pleasure and pain?
What is good writing? Connecting Two Paragraphs
Scene Building | a missed opportunity to dig deeper
Jurassic Park | Plot Questions
Mad Men | love, mind vs body
Characters I want to write: Pat Solitano
Does everything have to be accurate?
Mistake Made | thinking too much during the first draft
Flash Fiction, exercising my story muscle
How to make a horrible character who you cannot hate?
Scene Elements: Alpha Point
Sandman: writing a character arc for a god?
At what ends | my character's agenda in the cafeteria
Thor catches a sea serpent.
Ensuring Emotion in Important Lines: "it's game-day too"
style | lowercase part 2
Every manuscript I mistakenly have at least one bit (too) conceptual.
Grounding Concepts through Character: ask, what mind-state could have a conceptual thought like that.
A welcomed metaphor.
lowercase texting is fascinating
What is a good editing session?
Setting Expectations with simple insights into the character
One Plot from the Sandman Comics: a vortex, when our fictional stories become reality
Surreal Superhero: John Wick
there always are consequences, Don
An Author's Eye: Forks
Why do internal motivations and expectations create better writing?
Writing the First Draft, Quality versus Quantity
emotional writing expresses the psyche
Mad Man #1, Don Draper
although verse but #2
Creating a Mysterious Character: John Wick
Loki toys with Thor.
Writing Journey | jan 2020, how does a professional writer think?
a grammar remark: although versus but
List of Digging Questions
DIGGING, why is it the hardest writing work?
What makes me laugh #3
what happens when we stop dreaming
Mike Tyson: fucking great character inspiration
Coaching: 3 week sprints, manuscripts
Characters are not in control.
At what ends, a specific type of politician
Not going enough: my character's motivations for traveling
intuition | a final note.
intuition | how to make the leap?
intuition | common theme
intuition | corrupted by repression
intuition | corrupted by sentimentality
intuition | corrupted by rationalization
intuition | corrupted by beliefs
intuition | corrupted by the senses
intuition | what is a corrupted intuition
Skeletons in the Closet
MadMen, Season3: Peggy's Character Arc, a prediction
What attracts us to new people, new friends, new conversations, new lovers?
Character Blink: Mike, adding layers
"Everything gets its meaning compared to something else."
Curving Dialogue
Searching for misbelief: mistaking a rash action with the creation of a misbelief
My notes on Pan's Labyrinth
How to write humans, not robots: personifying agendas
How my coach thinks. Why?
Game of Thrones, a mix of emotions
Jurassic Park: perfect character arc
The High Note blink review
What a movie trailer promises: Trolls World Tour
How does irrationality carry forward?
Scenes on the Fly: Game of Thrones
Suppressing our desires: Emoji movie
Writing humans, not robots: questions list
Writing humans, not robots: watch for math
What a trailer promises: The Devil's Avocate
intermittent habits
make a system for internal purpose, not external.
On Death
My Purpose
Why (Purpose) verse How (cause/effect)
Theme is life's purpose.
Plot/Character/Theme
Heaven & Hell: rat experiment
External goals verse Internal goals
Moving up the hierarchy of goals: why 5x
Ground Up with Characters
GTD: ground up
creating a character with a conglomerate of goals.
A Conglomerate of Goals
intuition | another extreme
intuition | What are the extremes?
Just let me sell you: The Good Place
Why was I so blind, for 4 grueling months? #2
Why was I so blind, for 4 grueling months?
A Decision: Corporation verse Family Saga
A movie providing two distinct emotions: Knives Out
Manuscript Example: life purpose | before and after the realization
Coaching: The Power of Deadlines
Setting the Tone: Vikings
Jurassic Park: how does it get away with the midpoint change in tone?
Jurassic Park: midpoint genre (emotion) change
intuition: Confusion verse Questioning
Origin memory, the root of life's problems: Westworld's Benerad
intuition: this blog
Eyes Wide Shut: the mask scene.
What a movie trailer promises: What We Do in the Shadows
Summary of 4 months of misunderstanding and misdirection
Emotional Register: Citizen Kane
Find out if it's NOT your passion
a stepping stone to pause and look at the view.
Zodiac: hiding in plain sight
What makes me laugh #2
Conflicting Moral Decisions #2
Lack of control over our future.
Conflicting Moral Decisions
Studying Scenes on the Fly
intuition: how to use it as a writer | intro
Emotional Register: A Wedding Speech
Stories controlling what your mind doesn't see: Science-Fiction and Fantasy
Where University Misguides Writers: what matters.
Weird Science
Foreign Films
What a movie trailer promises: The Graduate
Externalize, Ripple, & specifically Justify to a root cause
Lucilla in Gladiator, what emotion is her storyline evoking?
Where's safety? (how we don't express what matters)
Gods of Egypt: Jordan Peterson
What a movie trailer promises: Gods of Egypt
When something isn't working, have the opposite happen.
What makes me laugh #1
Hiding our True self: why we don't express what matters