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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Midwich Cuckoos: Now a major Sky series starring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley
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You can’t sensibly inquire whether a whore is witty.
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
INTELLECTUALIZATION – concentrating on the non-emotive aspects (Manhattan) REPRESSION – repelling pleasurable instincts (The Remains of the Day) REGRESSION – to an earlier stage of development (The Big Chill) SUBLIMATION – shift of negative emotions into another object (Chocolat) RATIONALIZATION – specious reasoning away of trauma (Leaving Las Vega
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the moment that catalysed the creation of the neurosis, and consequently the character’s façade.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
This continual opposition of the protagonist’s and antagonist’s plans is the main underlying structure of the second act.
Alexandra Sokoloff • Writing Love: Screenwriting Tricks for Authors II: Story Structure for Pantsers and Plotters (Screenwriting Tricks For Authors (and Screenwriters!) Book 2)
protagonists have to be active and why stories wither the minute they become inert. Without desire – unless Michael pulls the trigger – there is nothing to catalyse the scene.