Story Nerd
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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
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