If nobody cares about your hero, your story is sunk right from the start. Here are some techniques to consider to make your hero one multi-dimensional and thus real and someone worth caring about. In the book “Screenplay: Writing the Picture,” the authors offer some techniques to make your hero feel more like a real […]
A story is only as interesting as its conflict where your hero battles to reach a goal. However, there are more than one way to create conflict and if you only use one form of conflict, your story could appear flat and one-dimensional. The book “Screenplay: Writing the Picture” defines three types of conflict your […]
The most interesting stories involve a character struggling with some internal flaw or mistake that’s haunting the hero. The least interesting stories are when the hero battles somebody else just for the sake of special effects and blowing things up. If you saw the movie “Battle: Los Angeles,” aliens are invading the Earth and the […]
One of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to create an original story. With people creating stories for centuries, chances are good that there are no original stories, but there are original wys of telling the same story. Rather tahn waste your time trying to create something entirely different, just focus on making your […]
One of the first role-playing games was Dungeons & Dragons. If you ever played this game, one person, called the Dungeon Master, set up the game world while the other players participated in it. The hardest part was simply creating a compelling adventure for players to tackle, but if you can understand the tasks of […]