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If you read most books on writing a novel, they suggest you create a backstory for your characters. The...

When plotting your story, always think of action and reaction. That means something interesting happens and then something else...

Every weekend Hollywood trots out their latest movies and every weekend, a large majority of those movies aren’t very...

The surest sign of a mediocre movie is when secondary characters don’t change. In “Maleficent,” then fairies guarding Sleeping...

Watch a mediocre movie like any of “The Expendables” trilogy and you’ll see lots of explosions and gunfire with...

One of the best ways to make a character feel real is to show them in a vulnerable situation....

There’s an old saying about story telling where you put your hero in a tree and then throw rocks...

The past always causes problems for the hero. Every story is about the hero trying to fix his or...

Study the best movies and you’ll notice they include two P’s: the past and a parallel story. The past...

No matter what type of story you’re creating, the key is to show us something new. You can be...

One crucial element of any story is that the hero often needs to overcome a problem from the past....