Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Mark Twain offers an insight into the psychology of intrinsic motivation. He observes that “work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
Ayelet Fishbach • Get It Done
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
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The cliché is to have a character inform another character with an info dump or a quote and have the other character react to hearing it as if they are hearing it for the first time or learning something. What is more interesting is to have the second character already know what the first person tells them. This imbues the second character with
... See moreIt’s incredible. You think you’re dying. You feel death enter your body. A doctor comes. He says you’re find, and you’re ready to swim the English Channel.
— Sophia, The Golden Girls, S1E10 The Heart Attack
satisfycing
Making a choice that isn’t the best per se but is good enough.
How much will the decision alter your overall happiness?
When adapting a book to a movie, you lose the narrator—even with voiceover. With that, you also lose the internal knowledge the narrator provides the audience. The intimate scenes between characters become more important for maintaining emotional pull. If you cut these as well, you are left with nothing but a vapid chain of events.
... See moreMyself, I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We