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Saving Beauty - Byung-Hul Chan Transformative Experience - L. A. Paul Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics - Hegel

Ha, I had that thought while I was writing my earlier comment. ***Dragon flying away into the moonlight, holding a struggling knight: Knight: "Let me go, you bat lizard! She's supposed to me meeting me in the garden by the fountain in a quarter of an hour!" Dragon: "This is for your own good...

100%. Vultures should replace owls as the birds of wisdom. Owls are just googly-eyed nocturnal raptor chickens, vultures figured out how to literally transcend the food chain. I've got tons of black and turkey vultures around and they are my Stink Eagles and I love them.

Trope subversion is my least favorite use of tropes. For instance (to use low hanging fruit), in the trope knight-saves-princess-from-dragon, you have a clear hero, a clear goal, and a clear danger. In the subversion of that trope (princess saves knight from dragon), what normally ends up...

Kingsport, hell yeah. I've been all over that country. I'm north Alabama, mid-state. Glad you found us! Looking forward to seeing some of your work. Welcome!

YOU ARE NOT A BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE. YOU ARE THE ALL-SEEING, ALL-DANCING CRAP OF THE WORLD. But seriously, Fight Club quotes aside: consistency is absolutely key. This coming from an unpublished guy who is 100% sure his lack of consistency is the problem. A trick to writing every day...

This sounds suspiciously like your antagonist is your protagonist. If you think about it in a vague way, imagine you have a force. That force is being misdirected and wasted by not being tested. Now imagine that force is given the opportunity to be tested. It refuses, because easier is better...

War of the Worlds: Survival of the fittest. The Martians are far superior to us in technology and therefore are unstoppable. They both embody the new top of the story world food chain, and succumb to the rule of the story world in the form of earth bacteria. We are proven to be the fittest for...

Screenwriting 101: Mastering the art of Story -The Great Courses, Audible So far it's been very good!

Congrats!

Welcome! Has anyone said "just keep writing" yet? Also, good books are the best teacher. Just keep reading too!

Just heard an interesting definition of Antagonist in a book on screenwriting: "[Darth Vader, like all antagonists, is] the embodiment of the story world's central rule."

Did anyone ever see the flick about the Darkside of the moon being populated by dinosaur-riding Nazis? I've only ever seen the preview.

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EXACTLY. ew.