Story Nerd
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The Godfather: Valerie gets excited
Aug 7, 202450 min
Nocturnal Animals: pretty, but no story
Jul 31, 202424 min
The Help: put this on your list
Jul 24, 202429 min
A Simple Favor: seriously, an evil twin?
Jul 17, 202436 min
Belfast: active v passive protagonist
Jul 14, 202433 min
What Lies Beneath: play the "let me guess" game
Jul 3, 202431 min
Doubt: a "quiet story" masterpiece
Jun 26, 202426 min
Our Best Advice: female characters + setups and payoffs
Jun 19, 202430 min
Hanna - women aren't small men
Jun 12, 202441 min
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: deus ex machina
Jun 5, 202433 min
The Genius of Novellas
May 31, 202411 min
Crazy Rich Asians: when the antagonist is more compelling than the protagonist
May 29, 202444 min
Yentil: the heroine's journey
May 22, 202436 min
Red Joan: meeting reader expectations
May 15, 202435 min
Dirty Dancing: the heroine's journey
May 8, 202438 min
Zero Dark Thirty: women in war zones
May 1, 202435 min
Moonstruck: writing female characters
Apr 24, 202444 min
What do agents do?
Apr 20, 202448 min
Our Best Advice: left-brained stories
Apr 17, 202423 min
The Sixth Sense: the art of the gotcha ending
Apr 10, 202436 min
Breakout Books v. Words on a Page
Apr 6, 20246 min
How to Write a Breakout Book
Apr 3, 20242 min
The Last of Sheila: soooo good
Apr 3, 202444 min
How do stories work?
Apr 1, 20245 min
Gosford Park: did he deserve it?
Mar 27, 202435 min
One Line Writing Secret You Need to Know
Mar 26, 20248 min
Our Most Embarrassing Literary Moments
Mar 23, 202429 min
A Most Wanted Man: why now?
Mar 20, 202435 min
THIS is how your novel gets noticed!
Mar 18, 20246 min
The Good Liar: surprise v twist
Mar 13, 202441 min
See How They Run: wasted potential
Mar 6, 202439 min
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: when did Smiley know?
Feb 28, 202457 min
The Game: why endings are important
Feb 21, 202438 min
The Dry: an introduction to outback noir
Feb 14, 202437 min
Crooked House: left-brained stories
Feb 7, 202440 min
Character Lessons from an Actor
Feb 5, 202410 min
Our Best Advice: conflict + cast design
Jan 31, 202425 min
The Lost Daughter: fisticuffs
Jan 24, 202448 min
Lady Bird: writing female protagonists
Jan 17, 202441 min
Love, Simon: how (not) to arc a character
Jan 10, 202440 min
Sex and the City: great world building, but meh
Jan 3, 202439 min
The Gentlemen: conflict and a detour
Dec 27, 202336 min
Little Women: why we do (or don't) love it
Dec 20, 202334 min
No Way Out: conflict triangles
Dec 13, 202343 min
The Full Monty: writing comedic characters
Dec 6, 202336 min
The Woman King: when storylines compete
Nov 29, 202346 min
August Osage County: one for your repertoire
Nov 22, 202329 min
Best Advice: character development + worldbuilding
Nov 15, 202321 min
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: externalize the internal
Nov 8, 202340 min
Pretty Woman: a masterclass in the fundamentals
Nov 1, 202346 min