A quick little something about Promising Young Woman for those confused by the praise it received.
A quick little something about Promising Young Woman for those confused by the praise it received.
Want to see how easy it is to build a meaningful story with the click of a button? I’m updating the manual for Subtext now that the app is feature complete.
Made subtle yet important changes to Tenet in Subtext after last night’s Dramatica community meeting.
Worth looking into if you want to become a better Protagonist for your stories! 🤣
What it is it called when you work with brilliant filmmakers from around the world? Oh yeah. Dream job!! 😃🎉
My kind of Saturday Night Live 
All matters of conflict in a narrative come down to this: being chased by a bear is not a problem. It’s only a problem if you run away.
When a client returns with a draft of their story that’s so compelling you can’t wait to see it up on-screen!
New Rock Sugar album! ReInventinator - pure 80s heaven! 
Episode Two of Season One of Succession is even better! Really interesting how the same narrative dynamics appear in both episodes, while the specific Problem driving each episode is slightly different…
Absolutely in love with the Premise Subtext came up with for the first episode of HBO’s Succession. Perfecto!
Turns out I was able to predict the Narrative Personality of Tenet just by watching the trailer. Authors tend to repeat themselves & are drawn to a certain area of the mind’s recognition of conflict.
Can’t stay up any longer. Guess I’ll be asleep when powered flight takes place on another planet!
Devastated. The Dome was my temple.
So excited. Just led what was easily one of the best classes ever. I now have recorded a clear explanation of what it means to replace a Problem with a Solution in a complete narrative! Can’t wait to get this one out…
New Endel Deeper Focus soundscapes are intense! Like living within a Hans Zimmer soundscape. I can’t stop typing!!
The Father brings the total number of unique narrative structures in Subtext to 483. 
Definitely getting closer with this one…awareness distorting issues of destiny (the promise of a bright future). 
Need to work on this one a bit. Not sure if Cassie ends up “staying present, and improving relationships” 😆 
The narrative Premise for The Father as seen in Subtext. The “no sense of the present” was completely random and based on other choices I made as to what the story was focusing on. 
The Father is adapted from a play and the reason it feels like a play is not simply setting and stage direction, but rather the SOURCE of conflict within the narrative. In plays, this source is almost always found in fixed mindsets–or in this case, a failing mindset.https://narrativefirst.com/articles/conflict-of-a-different-nature/
Wow two nights in a row. I thought 2021 was going to be a snooze fest at the Oscars but Nomadland was stellar, Promising Young Woman was fantastic, abs The Father tonight…heartbreakingly beautiful. So many great stories and great performances this year.
Promising Young Woman was great. Started plugging the narrative into Subtext and guess what turned out to be the central Plot element?? Destiny! Which, in Dramatica, is essentially an issue of promising young women being cut short of their potential 🤯 
Just going through Shawshank and seeing how the narrative structure predicted by Subtext plays out…figured this one section would be about the “hope is a dangerous thing” argument at the lunch table. Clicked Breakdown and look at the first illustration it came up with 
With Star Wars, there are 4 sources of conflict explored: searching for the plans (Doing), interrogations and educating Alderaan about the Death Star (Learning), escaping with the Princess (Obtaining), and underestimating chances of success (Understanding). narrativefirst.com/articles/…
Last week I unraveled a way to predict the order of thematic events in a story through a single premise. This week I start exploring what that looks like in completed works of art, Plot Points and the Inciting Incident