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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The antagonist they fear, then – the ‘monster’ they must overcome – is the embodiment of the very thing lacking in themselves.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
they are the product of the writer’s argument with reality.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
inciting incident blows a seemingly ordered reality into a thousand fragments, then a detective arrives to hunt down the culprits and restore things to their rightful place.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The midpoint, then, is the moment the protagonists are given a very powerful ‘drug’ but not the necessary knowledge to use it properly.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Hollywood tends to extremes;
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
‘a neurosis is a secret you don’t know you’re keeping’.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
good dialogue is forged in the furnace of opposition.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
In the end, what Curtis wanted most was a painless way to put them out of their misery. They screamed and screamed, faces popping in and out of existence in fractal tilings like checkerboard explosions. Horrible unending cries filled the room, doubling on top of themselves when the phonemes were precise copies of each other, harmonizing when... See more
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