Story Nerd
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Our Best Advice: tension + 4SQ
Feb 12, 202517 min
Sleepless in Seattle: relies on star power?
Feb 5, 202528 min
Gifted: nowhere to hide
Jan 29, 202533 min
The Secret of Roan Inish: sweet but weak
Jan 22, 202527 min
Judy: why object of desire is essential
Jan 15, 202530 min
Crazy Stupid Love: passive tension?
Jan 8, 202533 min
Fatal Attraction: who's the villain? (archive)
Jan 1, 202539 min
10 Things I Hate About You: what not to do (archive)
Dec 25, 202433 min
The Nightmare Before Christmas: razzle dazzle
Dec 18, 202432 min
The Banshees of Inisherin: when the mc breaks bad
Dec 11, 202425 min
Calendar Girls: wait...it's over?
Dec 4, 202433 min
BLACK FRIDAY - SAVE 89%
Nov 29, 20242 min
What Went Wrong: the cold light of day
Nov 27, 202439 min
Our Best Advice: writing exposition and creating character arcs
Nov 20, 202427 min
Up in the Air: thiiiiin
Nov 13, 202419 min
All the President's Men: masterful exposition
Nov 6, 202443 min
Gone Baby Gone: writing a static protagonist
Oct 30, 202437 min
Little Miss Sunshine: who's the protagonist?
Oct 23, 202429 min
Far From Heaven: what your character doesn't want
Oct 16, 202427 min
I, Tonya: don't try this at home
Oct 9, 202430 min
Dorian Gray: what mick jagger said
Oct 2, 202429 min
The Social Network: pacing, pacing, pacing
Sep 25, 202429 min
Best Advice: Narrative Drive + Conflict Triangles
Sep 18, 202425 min
Eye in the Sky: wonderfully nuanced storytelling
Sep 11, 202433 min
NYAD: writing unlikeable characters
Sep 4, 202432 min
The Wife: best movie ever
Aug 28, 202425 min
August Osage County: simply masterful
Aug 21, 202431 min
Lego Batman: ROTFL
Aug 14, 202439 min
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