101 Things I Learned About Fiction from Film

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2023 Fave First Watches (A Video Countdown)
Sorry for the absence, have some movie recs!!!
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J. Marcelo Borromeo

July 2023

Just Try to Feel It
Or: Wes Anderson's Asteroid City (2023) unexplained
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What's My Motivation: Ocean's Eleven (2001), dir. Steven Soderbergh
New format! How important are character motivations? How long can you go without having to reveal them?
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April 2023

February 2023

The Writing Life (important announcements!)
An apology and a treat.
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3. Show, don't tell
How strict should we be with the cardinal rule of storytelling? Can stories be all-tell or show-and-tell? Featuring Game of Thrones, Inception (2010…
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BONUS: My 2022 in Film (a video countdown)
Showing love for the movies I enjoyed seeing most last year, from EEAAO to the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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January 2023

2. Start Late
When should a story start? On film budgets, writing economically, and finding the correct "beginning" with Fresh (2022) and Drive My Car (2021)
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J. Marcelo Borromeo
1. Start Strong
What I learned about memorable openings from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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0. What I Learned About Fiction, I Learned from Film
An intro
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