Storytelling
Is Game of Thrones Violating Its Own Theme?
For a story that was built around unpredictability and innovation, its final chapters are deviating from what its fans have come to expect.
Storytelling
8 Tips to Hook Your Audience
These tips will help your audience get interested and emotionally attached to your stories fast.
Storytelling
How Game of Thrones Uses Scene Structure to Reveal Character and Theme
From politics to survival, here are three ways the Season Seven premiere of Game of Thrones uses story structure to define its characters’ motivations.
Armchair Sociology
The Secret Ingredient to Every Great Story
Research shows there’s something even more important than happy endings.
Storytelling
The Real Hidden Genius of Pulp Fiction
When Pulp Fiction debuted in 1994, writer-director Quentin Tarantino was hailed as a filmmaking genius, and his movie rewired filmmakers’ brains for the next 20 years. The film earned tons of buzz for a number of valid reasons: its unexpected revival of John Travolta’s career its profanity-fueled pop culture dialogue Read more…
Storytelling
What Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead Can Teach Us About Modern Storytelling
Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead take have so much more in common than zombies. In many ways, they’re almost the same show… and they’re not alone.
Storytelling
9 Annoying Plot Holes in Thor: The Dark World
Every Marvel movie has a few problems, but Thor: The Dark World has some truly blockbuster-sized plot holes.