Reading Story Genius is a series of highs and lows. This quote is a definite high:
Ok, I thought raising my wrist to activate Siri was cool enough…but now I just have to say the word while walking around the house with AirPods Pro in?! Don’t have to look at my watch or pull out the phone. Awesome upgrade.
Pretty much the reason why you need to build the change you see:
Silencia by Hammock popped up in Apple Music for me this week. Stunningly beautiful melodies to help you reflect on yet another beautiful year.
Tee hee. 😁 couldn’t wait, and snuck out.
The shortest day of the year.
My dad would always drive me to Tempo Records on Lyons Ave. in Newhall after a Star Wars movie. Those soundtracks were everything to me, and provided the inspiration for two different careers in the film and television industry.
Now, it takes two seconds from the time my phone informs me of its availability to the moment I tap Play before I hear that familiar fanfare blast.
JAMstacking everything in 2020. Already half way there with Narrative First. Nothing but a great experience so far, and the community support is crazy good.
Top 15 from 2019: Features, Resources, and Netlify & JAMstack News
Life before meditation:
Double rainbow!! Rainbow 🌈 🌈
And considering all that happened this week, I consider both of them a very, very good sign.
Marvel films may not be “cinema,” but at least they know how to tell a story…💤😴
The Irishman was a complete bore fest. Didn’t even finish it, stopped about halfway through.
The best part? The opening gas station scene where DeNiro and Pesci met - it’s a set off of Calgrove Blvd. that you can see off Interstate 5 just north of L.A. (not Jersey). Which means those legends were in my hometown not too long ago!!
I had no idea this was a thing! Click the dinosaur and now you have something to do while you’re waiting to connect.
Late Friday night when you finally realize the Antagonist that’s been staring you in the face from the very beginning. 😆
Netlify is ridiculously simple and well thought out. Adding redirects took about 2 seconds.
If you’re like me, and you’re about halfway through writing something for National November Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), chances are you’re beginning to sense something missing. This series of articles on The Relationship Story Throughline should help you out.
This is a pretty spectacular album for writing screenplays. Seven Worlds One Planet by Zimmer & friends. The title track is so inspiring.
My friend Bobby Rubio made an absolutely beautiful short film that is now on Disney+ called Float. The animation is out-of-this-world subtle and unique, and the story is heartfelt and real.
Haven’t heard this many sirens at once before.
You may also like Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back…
This AI is incredible!
Really enjoying JAMStack Radio. Can’t believe it started in 2016, and I’m just now getting into it!
Currently imagining how awesome it’s going to be to do what I love on a new MacBook Pro.
Paddington 2 is super impressive if it was written without Dramatica. It basically follows a storyform from beginning to end, almost to the point of using certain Elements within dialogue!
Probably why it scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
#screenwriting #writingtips
Just tried out Overdub for Descript. Basically, you screw up a word or words in your podcast, and you can TYPE replacement words. A Voice Double–tunes to your voice–replaces your original audio seamlessly! My first couple of tests right now were like magic.
Now if I could only do the same with this travesty that is the latest version of Star Wars on Disney+!
As a former Disney animator, of course I’m streaming Steamboat Willie first.
Continuous deployment is the greatest thing in the world. Also, branch deploys for automatic staging servers. Netlify, I love you.
Just ordered my Cortex Ugly Christmas Sweater. Only a couple days left to be the talk of the office!
Trying Sizzy out, because there’s nothing I love more than new developer tools. (They’re site is beautiful too, insta-buy).
Just held the most mind-blending class in the Writers Room in Subtext. The input from the attendees was off the chart! So excited to eventually share it with the rest of the writing community.
Nuxt JS is essentially the Laravel of Vue JS (which I get is a framework of a framework of JavaScript). Having spent a couple years mixing PHP and JS, I can easily say that Nuxt is the greatest developer experience by far.
Completely intuitive and well thought-out.
This presentation by the creator of Nuxt is a good start.
Just figured out all my story issues in the shower. I respectively submit for Apple to make the next MacBook 100% waterproof, so I can finish writing the whole thing in there.
“There’s nothing on your schedule for the rest of the day.” Music to my ears, Alexa.
This is why I switched from PHP/Laravel to JAMStack…
The old version of Narrative First:
The new JAMStack-ified version of the same exact site:
Oh. And the first Narrative First is the Lighthouse score on local.
Welcome to my sad Black Parade.
Waited 20 minutes online to buy tickets to see My Chemical Romance return and they’re already sold out. 😭
Come to think of it, I’d be surprised if anyone pays face-value for these.
After 13 years, Narrative First is now an app.
This latest rollout lays the foundation for a Subtext/NF crossover experience unheard of in storytelling software.
I can’t tell you how happy I am about the improvements in speed, and the many many new features to come in the following months. For those of you in more remote or distant parts of the world you should experience a huge difference in response requests.
Subtext is truly the most delightful way to write a story.
Achievement #34256 unlocked: experience an E.T. style Halloween St. with streets packed with kids and haunted houses around every corner.
Going to be coming here every year from now on (Agajanian Rd. in Saugus, CA).
Doesn’t matter what time of day–I always fall asleep when Snoopy does his Wotld War I Flying Ace bit.
Clicking Netlify’s Verify DNS Configuration over and over again like its the Apple store on iPhone night. 😁
It is ridiculous how effortless it is to spin up a static site with Netlify and JAMStack.
There’s no way I’m going back to anything else.
An overwhelmingly insight post on Superhuman’s on-boarding and the delight with which they infuse everything. Looking to copy a lot of this once I finish engineering some key delight into Subtext.
There can be no greater than feeling, than the feeling one gets when you finally roll out an accelerated, hyper-realized version of your app WITHOUT ERRORS!
Everything is possible!
My afternoons with Sam Harris are turning out to be the best 15 minutes of the day. Waking Up app
This garage tour of Google circa 1998 is just what I needed this week:
Funny reading an article written before my extensive work on The Holistic Premise. Like looking at pictures of yourself in elementary school. So much more room to grow.
Also, yesterday’s AWS debacle forced me to finally integrate 13 years of blog parts and articles into my app for writing stories, Subtext.
Story structure nirvana, to be sure. And it’s nice to finally see something I imagined for over a decade finally come together.
Let’s hope Amazon got its act together while I was sleeping.
Now that the last chapter of my book this year is finished, I’m clearing out articles I started six months ago.
Always weird reading something you’ve written as if someone else wrote it. Some of it’s not too bad 😁
Feels amazing to finally finish this first stage of rewriting Subtext. No more page refreshes. Search is blazingly fast. Key bindings to keep the writer in the moment. InstantScene offering meaningful writing prompts. So crazy how fun this is to develop.
Rolling it out for testers this weekend. 😂
Diving into my first manual “copying over files” from a PR in GitHub. Thinking it’s a lot more intimidating then it really is, as I start but still feel like it’s something everything thinks is obvious.
The panic when I see a todo on Things that I have NO IDEA what it means, but seems super important.
Joker is just Taxi Driver without Jodi Foster. Incomplete, at best, but not as ambiguous as everyone seems to think. It doesn’t matter what his last hidden joke was–the fact that he determined “you wouldn’t get it” is all that is needed to make sense of his growth.
You just needed the other side of things.
Listening to this track from the Spirit soundtrack and man, do I miss animating on that film. One of the best creative experiences of my life. Working with James Baxter and Jakob Jensen and drawing horses living and breathing?
Incomparable.
What is this I just discovered? Experimental Hans Zimmer music from Dark Phoenix??
What a great way to end the week 😃🔥
Writing a screenplay for some of your favorite actors while simultaneously developing an app that helps writers blast through their first draft. Dreams within dreams within dreams!
Super excited to share this next article once it’s done. I basically rewrote Casablanca from the point-of-view of Corinna, the Nazi sympathizer in the film. All in an effort to show the difference in structure between a tragedy and a triumph. Turned out awesome.
Never underestimate the power of a mid-afternoon meetup with Sam Harris and the Waking Up app to get you realigned. 2pm - 3pm is the great divide.
Have to keep reminding myself–when server charges go up, that’s a GOOD thing :) Means more and more people coming to your site and using your app. Never seen a bill this big before!
You know you’re out of shape when you head back to the gym after six months, and massively pull a muscle in your stomach you didn’t even know existed–all while stretching in the first ten seconds.
$1 Million for Darth’s helmet in Empire?
Sounds like a bargain to me.
Much prefer Insomnia over Postman when it comes to testing API calls. Can go from 0 to 100 in 5 minutes.
Also. There’s a “.rest” domain?!
Think I’m going to try implementing Passport today. JWT-Auth just doesn’t seem to be cutting it for some reason, and I can’t quite figure out why.
On a side note, going all in with Vue is proving to be an absolute joy.
Melanie Anne Phillips, co-creator of the Dramatica theory of story and our generation’s Einstein, publishes a post about her creation:
You see, the “theory” of Dramatica can’t really be proven or disproven. Either stories can be understood as a model of the mind or not. But if they can, then the applications and formulas of the theory need to be constantly questioned, amended, discarded, and added to. The advancement of practical applications and understanding of the theory is an ongoing process which will likely never be completed. After all, how much is there to learn about the mechanism of the mind?
This post looks to be about 15 years old (considering the ages related therein), which makes it all the more fascinating considering the work done here at Narrative First this past year.
The idea of a Holistic Premise. The re-discovery that the Relationship Story Throughline does not have to be between the Main and Influence Character. The series takedown of the Hegelian Dialectic.
Not to mention all the advances and new features found in Subtext. Genres and Subgenres. Storybeats. The storyform as Premise.
Active development of the theory indeed remains in progress.
The key to improving the theory is to call every suspicious formula into question, lay it out for public viewing. The theory will only “advance” into more practical use if others more skilled than “you” (self-deception) or “I” (confidence) contribute our efforts.”
Saturday morning heaven.
Frozen 2 looked super-lame until that last trailer. 😳 some seriously great animation in there too. Will be finding the biggest screen to see this on.
Great news! We finally found an unproduced screenplay worthy of putting up in Subtext. Had a feeling the structure would be complete, and we confirmed that hunch during today’s class.
Going to be adding it as another section of Storyforms in Subtext.
Wow. Just finished reading Beside Ourselves, a 2018 Nicholls Fellowship Finalist, in preparation for today’s Writers Room class. What a beautiful screenplay about love and acceptance. Thank you Gabriel Mizrahi.
Started playing around with the new Descript, bringing the podcast back to life. While it doesn’t look like I have access to Overdub yet, the auto-transcript is about 10,000 times better than it was last year. Less time fixing bad interpretations.
Fun with JWT Authorization today in Vue. Nice starting point is this Authentication Course from VueMastery.
As someone who writes on their phone for a living, the loss of cursor-control in iOS is unsettling. Teaching for the Spacebar every time disrupts the flow of ideas.
A perfect visual explanation of the dissonance between the Main Character and Influence Character of a story.
The inequity of your story is the dissonance between the viewer and the sculpture.
From one perspective (I) - that inequity looks like a square.
From the other perspective (You) - that inequity looks like a circle.
Your story is the experience of walking around the sculpture.
Thought my fellow creatives might appreciate this one this morning.
Inspired by all the great documentation in the Laravel community, I’m going to really dive into the docs for Subtext this Fall. Starting tonight.
Hearing the soundtrack from Hook playing in the living room is a perfect alternative then having to sit through watching Hook.
What an amazing weekend!
In addition to finally breaking through a challenging aspect of building out Subtext, I stumbled across a really great new book on creativity, Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo.
I actually found out about it through the service that delivers these emails, Convertkit. Isa Adney, their official storyteller, recounts in a blog post how she was inspired by Marie to change the way she approaches writing.
The best part?
She used Dramatica to do it, and didn’t even realize it!
Those of you familiar with the theory will totally recognize the specific narrative Elements for her story, but for those who don’t, I went ahead and published a new blog post on the entire thing this morning.
Read Allowing Greater Creativity Through Story Structure
It’s always amazing to me to see these ideas and concepts in the real world–and even more meaningful when in the context of creating.
Great. The best part about being an adult is that no one can tell you you’re playing your music too loud.
I’m loving the no-case life, but how does everyone avoid scratching the back with those rivets on the jeans small pocket?!
Seriously hot tip here about developing for Stripe that I didn’t know.
Weird. My watch is always on now.
I like the look and feel of Apple Books with their menus and interactivity, but I love the Kindle typography even more. I wish each would grab the other part from the other.
There’s so many cool things coming out today and tomorrow that my head explodes thinking of all the possibilities! 🤯
Not sure why Sayonara Wild Hearts keeps asking me if I want to skip this part–the whole point of the game is to listen to all the rad music, right?
Today’s class went exceedingly well.
Talked about how to balance out a relationship at the end of a story, as well as keeping up narrative drive throughout every scene (Hint: separate the Outcome from the next Potential).
Over 60+ hours of classes available in Subtext.
People don’t like snark.
For my Evergreen Newsletter for Narrative First, I added a link to my takedown of Tropes–because they drive me crazy, and don’t really mean anything.
50% drop in open rates.
Bye-bye, snark.
This is the closest I will get to a Midnight Green iPhone this year.
Poop. Just realized that I accidentally ordered the Space Gray instead of Midnight Green. 5am is ridiculous.
Though, when I think about it, maybe I don’t want a green phone.
Ok. This game is pretty crazy.
Nothing better than defeating the demon that is mapping Javascript objects of objects and filtering them by key values. A yearly nightmare!
If you want to see how to rollout and onboard new customers, you need to check out the whole workflow for Descript. Really impressive, and gives tons of ideas on how to improve your own product.
And the product video for the new Descript app is even better. Inspires all kinds of creativity and good vibes.
Rebuilding a Vue component from the ground-up, because sometimes you just need to start all over.
Ok. This is just about the coolest thing I have ever heard of in a podcast app:
With Overdub, you can make editorial corrections to your voice recordings by simply typing the words, and then we use AI to synthesize audio of your voice and blend it in seamlessly.
Makes me want to start up the ‘ol podcast just to try it out 🤓
Just when I think I’m doing all I can to teach writers about Dramatica, I run across a YT video with 500,000 views and almost 2K comments advocating Writing Characters Without Character Arcs.
Just means I have more work left to do.
Want to know what it means to traverse a quad in the Dramatica theory of story?
That circle graphic you see in every book about the Hero’s Journey…
It’s a spiral.
This week on Narrative First, a continuation of my series on the Hegelian Dialectic: Writing a Meaningful End to Conflict.
683 days in a row meditating and I think I’m just starting to get it. Watched Mingyur Rinpoche over the weekend, and despite my frustration in how long he takes to get to the point (good indication that I still have more to learn), the simple fact that it’s just about awareness hit me.
And now I’m seeing it all around me as I walk and write.
Chips, Cheese, and Beans. Check it.
I love how Marcus Aurelius concerned himself with haters 2000 years ago.
We don’t have time to think about what other people are thinking, even if it’s about us.
Haters gonna hate.
When air guitaring to Blink-182 to start your afternoon, be sure to make sure your phone went back to sleep so that you don’t accidentally hit the next song button through your pants, totally ruining your jam, and taking you out of the moment.
I think I just finished the first draft of my book.
When you haven’t picked up a pen in 3 years, yet somehow get inspired by Moleskine’s Flow app.
Don’t know what it is, but every time I have to manually sign in to Stripe, I’m reminded of the first time I set my account up about 6 years ago, out in the gardens in front of Sony Animation.
I was just going to sell some e-books for 2.99
Never imagined it would get this far.
Going on record to say it’s not a dream. What better way to set up anticipation for the next trilogy…
The combination of the Coffee House track from the Dark Noise app and a Cortex-bingeing day is perfect for end of the week wrap-ups.
😇
Also. Don’t forget to choose the “One is None” icon. Naturally.
The best part of the end of August is when all the movers and shakers come back from vacation eager to start writing 😃
Looking nice in the new Feedbin app! This year I started writing first thing every morning. So far, 195 hours. All new content. Loads of new feature ideas for my app. A couple bookshelves the way. Best decision.
And I’ll never stop.
Hi. I have a support request.
Let me see what I can do.
OK, fixed. Enjoy.
But the whole WORLD gets to enjoy immediately. 😃
What an amazing time to be alive and writing code.
Terrence Malick AND a story??!
I’m so in.
Also, his trailers always have the best music behind them. First 40 seconds or so are James Newton Howard, but the last?
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No.3, Op.36
Hey Siri, build me a story based on Mission Impossible: Fallout.
“Sry, Jim. I can’t do that. There is no story. Instead, copy and paste the phrase: ‘Walk away’ five or six times, and you’ll be good to go.”
Fifteen years, I chose XM Radio over Sirius because they ran a Film Score channel. I loved listening to movie music while animating. After the merger, they dumped the channel. Today, I discovered Cinemagic is back with the SiriusXM app.
And guess what was playing?
10 hours straight writing. No breaks. 8 hours ago I had the wrong storyform. Ten minutes ago I finished the entire treatment. In five minutes, I’ll go outside.
Fine-tuning the Holistic Premise in Subtext, and this one for Eternal Sunshine feels so perfect…
And just like that, I’m granted access to take Subtext serverless. 😃
Going to be a GREAT weekend!
On the other side of using my app Subtext to write something for high-profile client. This thing is AWESOME…though I can see a TON of stuff I’d like to do to improve it.
Benefits of being the one who put it all together. I can rewrite my own software. 😃
Not really sure what the hubbub was with Little Woods. Pretty sure there was one more Act left to tell. You got Understanding the sit., Doing the selling, Losing the stash and control, then…more Doing? Missing the Learning bit (P.O. finds out, etc). Incomplete storytelling.
Driving down Sunset and blasting the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack after securing another writing gig. 🦶🏻☀️ 🏝
Friday afternoon story meeting.
This episode of Acquired was great, particularly if you’re like me and building a product for market fit. Rahul’s interviews always inspire, Superhuman is incredible, and the hosts on this show actually engage and ask great follow-up questions.
Definitely one to listen to again.
I love watching this video on Steadfast Main Characters I put together years ago. So good…and still so timely 😁
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…three hours of watching someone watch a movie. 🙄
Morning writing buddy.
Tenet trailer was totally not worth it 🤣 Wasn’t a total loss. Top Gun on big screen was great, as was Joker which looked phenomenal.
Hobbs & Shaw was a blast.
While rebuilding my system from the ground-up, I forgot to install Hazel–my go to for cleaning up my desktop and keeping everything sane while I work.
Tickets purchased for Hobbs & Shaw tonight. Mostly for the glimpse on the big-screen of Tenet.
But also because I love the Fast & Furious movies 😃
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far In Foot is evidence that creative constraints are a good thing. With no real Relationship development and under-serviced Overall Story, the film is a chore to get through.
Films with a score less than 80% NEVER have all Four Throughlines.
Ever.
Delightfully surprised by the new way links open in Safari iOS 13:
“Heartfelt thanks for walking with me on my journey,” said Milch, who kept his remarks brief and focused on Deadwood in his speech between standing ovations. “Here’s hoping I have a few more stories left to tell.”
The feeling is mutual.
The Farewell was fantastic. Expertly structured holism that explores burdens worth keeping–particularly when you see yourself as part of a whole, rather than an individual.
Can the foot say to the hand, I have no need of thee? No. Because all are necessary.
The Farewell to Summer with Summer.
Crisp and clean. With a new color palette.
My annual rebuilding of Subtext is underway…which means its time to take advantage of the latest and greatest from the Laravel/VueJS/Tailwind combo.
Cleaning up the Search here - not sure what it is about TS 1.0, but everything looks so clean now.
Usage fees for Subtext tripled from a year ago. I could think of this one of two ways: one, I need to find a cheaper DigitalOcean plan.
Or two: demand for my app has TRIPLED.
I like the second.
How I will be spending the latter half of 2019:
Taking Subtext serverless thanks to Otwell&Co.
Watching and reading about Evan You’s talk at LaraconUS this year. So glad I made the right choice two years ago. The VueJS/Laravel combo is a never-ending wealth of inspiration.
And at 5:30pm I finally get everything back to normal.
whew. 😅
Looks like Subtext will be going serverless in August, thanks to Laravel Vapor 😃 #Laracon
Looks like the clean sweep was the best solution to my Mojave-Beta-July-Mercury-Retrograde-woes. Wiped the HD clean and started with a fresh install of Mojave.
Now to spend the rest of the day bringing everything back to life.
Merry #LaraconUS -mas Eve, everyone!
Will not read anything better this morning. The marketing luxury tactics of Superhuman. I was aware of the gaming aspect, and am thinking of ways to incorporate that into creating stories, but I didn’t know about the luxury aspect.
Regardless of all the bad press lately, I still love using the product. And feel like I’m “winning” at email everyday.
Guess that’s part of the design.
When this crawls up your leg while you’re going to the bathroom, and every stick and twig you step over terrifies you the rest of the day.
Well, that was a thrilling weekend.
After 30+ hours of listening to real-time communications between Apollo 11 and Mission Control in Houston., I’m out. The crew jettisoned the Lunar Module in preparation for their return home, and it’s time for me to return to 2019.
Some fun things I learned that I never knew before:
Going to check back in in a couple of days to listen to splashdown.
Thanks forever to this site: Apollo 11 in Real-time
State of the art motion graphics 1969:
When you finish writing next week’s article before you’ve even published the one for this week.
“When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I love espresso and would happily consume it all day. But I only allow myself one latte a day, and I save it for when I’m doing my creative work—partly because it jump-starts my mind almost magically, and partly because this has trained me, Pavlovian style, to associate writing with the pleasure of coffee.”
I know that feeling.
And I will go to sleep knowing there will be more creativity tomorrow.
from “Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World” by Timothy Ferriss
50 year anniversaries of Moon landings should happen all the time. Kept me in my seat all day long enough to finish rolling out the updates to the Narrative Arguments in Subtext.
Just heard CAPCOM call home to tell his son he wouldn’t be home for dinner. 😆
The passive-aggressive back and forth in Mission Control is classic. “Don’t worry about, Gene – I’m speculating it’ll heat back up.”
“Well, that would make me warm.”
Was going to post something about how silly #SDCC is compared to guys actually landing on the moon. But then this shows up and now I just love everything.
6 ½ hours from landing to finally going outside??! Just open the door and GO.
Neil’s heartrate went up to 156 when he landed long. Mine sometimes gets up to 170 when I go running, so I think I could have handled it.
I’ve decided that flipping circuit breakers on the lander is just the same as hitting Cmd + R to refresh state here in my own office. 😆
A Vigilante breaks my Rotten Tomatoes 90% rule.
91%, but no story whatsoever.
Watch the Apollo 11 doc instead.
Have to admit–I love the new Top Gun trailer.
This is what popped up for me this morning, when I uploaded the narrative structure for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind into my app, Subtext.
I don’t think people yet fully understand what this all means.
Of course, I forgot that the arguments in the app are slightly tweaked for more accuracy.
The Holistic mind is more concerned with issues, rather than plot, so here we see “low self-esteem” as the central issue in Eternal, which makes way more sense.
And this is the real crazy part. This is the last Act Subtext spun up for me based on the narrative structure of Eternal. The bold storytelling is RANDOM - based purely on that one Premise.
Pure magic if you know the film.
Break those Storybeats down into greater detail and you wrap up both the logistical and emotional concerns of that initial Premise.
This is basically my proof of concept.
“Hey Siri, build me a story where low self-esteem issues drive people to juggle their judgments of others with their expectations of the worst.”
“Oh. And make it bittersweet.”
When your totally random Dramatic Argument generator seems almost too prescient:
When refactoring and for some reason, it all worked the first time through.
Not sure what to do with the rest of my time.
Mood right now after running my first test:
Really excited about this one, this week: The Curse of the Hegelian Dialectic.
Had a really strange “coincidence” this past month where two professional writers—one in film and television, and the other a novelist—both brought up this idea of the Hegelian Dialectic and how it can be used to structure a story. I ended up writing a response to one, and out of nowhere, the other brought it up in a separate context.
Very strange.
Knowing what I know about the structure of a story and how it relates to the composition of the mind it is modeling, I set about writing a response that explores the Holistic side of things.
Another strange “coincidence” as I just finished a series of articles on The Holistic Premise, in part, a foundation for the brand new feature I’m rolling out for Subtext this month…
…building a story strictly from Premise.
The Universe works in very strange ways.
iOS 13 randomly asked me to enter Passcode over the weekend for iCloud, and this morning I was able to write with iAWriter.
So nice to be back with my old friend again. ✍🏻
No starvation and unlimited arrows? This next generation of D&D players is lame. #daughterDM
50% of all story problems can be solved by splitting the Main Character’s personal problems as separate from the Overall Story concerns. Yes, they’re connected, but they’re not the same. You’re not writing a story about a Protagonist.
I still remember when people’s heads exploded when I told them that Victor Lazlo, NOT Rick, was the Protagonist of Casablanca.
Rick was the Main Character. Victor was the Protagonist.
Know the difference and you can save months off your next rewrite.
Gary Clark, Jr. is the soundtrack for July’s in Southern California. Sounds like earthquakes and 100+ degree weather.
The 10x Engineer thread. Which is indistinguishable from satire. I like to think I can convert “thought” into “code,” but you can still read all the keys on my keyboard.
When you look over a block of code you wrote two years ago, and realize you could do the same thing in about three lines–>personal growth.
Fixing an important typo on something I wrote NINE years ago, because it’s still relevant and because people still write in asking me to explain the article.
No one is asking me to fix the scenes I animated on Dragon at the same time, nor could I.
#screenwriting #writingtips
So what exactly is the Universe telling me when “Holiday Road” randomly pops up on SiriusXM the exact moment I’m driving by Magic Mountain?
Stranger Things: Season 3 was phenomenal. Season Two was OK, which left me not all that excited about 3…but man, I got about 3 hours of sleep last night because I could not stop watching.
Not too many projects make me jealous. Stranger Things makes me jealous.
I haven’t felt a single earthquake. First one I was out writing and walking. Second I was asleep. The one tonight I was literally in the peak zone of my run. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, so…
…sorry. 😊
There is nothing more satisfying than cranking your Baratza grinder to just the right setting. ☕️🌞
Narrative First made more in the first half of 2019 then it did in all of 2016.
I can’t believe I get to say this, but if you have a dream to do something that has never been done before, you can make it happen.
Because I just did.
“Hey Siri, build me an outline for a television show about a hit man who wants to quit because he wants to be an actor, but realizes at the end that his killing days are just going to go on and on…”
#screenwriting #writingtips
My son, who is now 20, published a brand new composition last week: Brave Frontier. It blows me away that this is the same person I used to build LEGOs with.
When you see Hegelian dialectic used in reference to story structure, run for ze hills. It’s the equivalent of saying the sky is blue because the grass is green.
#screenwriting #writingtips
Building the storyform for Barry, and the idea that a theory of story could predict the specific conflict of Self Interest and Altriuism for Barry himself during the final episode is pure magic.
#screenwriting #writingtips
Superhuman has totally transformed the way I work. No longer do I scour chat windows in different apps, hoping to keep up with someone else’s schedule. Email everything.
Heard from a #screenwriter yesterday who sold a television series to Spielberg and friends.
He used Subtext to help develop it.
And I haven’t even released the killer feature yet. 😁
#writingtips
If you missed it, here’s a series of articles on the Holistic Premise. Greed leads to self-destruction. Yawn. Cause and effect is so 20th century. 😃
Uhh. Got this for Father’s Day, and it makes ALL the difference. Have a feeling I’m going to get a ton of work done today.
I love the focus on measuring experience in terms of milliseconds with Superhuman. Every update is about how they shortened another interaction to under 100 milliseconds. Inspired to do the same.
This clearly makes me a superior writer, right? 🙄
Father’s Day in Pasadena, doing what my dad used to do for me. Free reign at Dick Blick’s Art Supplies.
When you’re stuck in traffic, but still have a story meeting. #screenwriting #writingtips
The Mustang was a thing of beauty. See it.
When I heard fans were fixing the new Spider-Man poster, I figured it was another case of Audience Entitlement (Game of Thrones, Sonic) and the death of art.
I was right on both accounts. 😆
This one is my favorite:
This book disturbed me so much, at one point I had to put it away for a couple months. Ended great.
Just led an amazing class where we discussed the difference between the Holistic mindset and the Linear mindset. Sets narrative structure while simultaneously manufacturing conflict in your relationships with others. 🤣
Pro tip: Put on the Dark Phoenix soundtrack. Then write. Or go for a run. You’re welcome.
Building a complete story on your phone with your own app is awesome.
Working with writers in Turkey now. And Indonesia. And other from the Ukraine. The internet is the coolest thing ever.
This month’s Dramatica Users Group meeting is all about Skyfall which will be interesting–since the first time I saw it, I didn’t really think it was all that complete.
Wonder if my perception has changed since then…
Scheduling “Lunch with [childhood hero]” is so fulfilling 😊
Added the friendship between Hiccup and Toothless to the storyform for Dragon, because, you know, heart. ❤️
app.narrativefirst.com/storyform…
#screenwriting #writingtip
Uhhhhh…Superhuman is crazy good. I’m finally going to be able to keep up with email. 🎉
You know you hit the nail on the head when someone tells you that your work is “the biggest screen writing con i have ever seen” and “i will spend a lot of time to expose you.”
#screenwriting #writingtip
Finally got setup with Superhuman. Impressed with the white-glove service so far (and for just email!). Really interested to see if it will help email, but even more interested in the quality of on-boarding and what this kind of approach does for the user.
Well, after three days of trying I’m officially giving up on installing this first round of iOS 13. I did the watch because I wanted the new Solar Dial which I love(reminds me of my Slow watch), but now my watch can’t talk to my phone , which means I can’t tell what my Sleep Debt is anymore 😮
Tried updating through iTunes, didn’t work. Updated to Mojave, didn’t work–but my MacBook transformed into a Ferrari 🏎💨 so that was a bonus.
Downloaded 8GB of XCode because trying the small Package Manger file didn’t work–that didn’t work, so I’m officially calling it.
Don’t want to upgrade to Catalina yet until I enjoy a big more of the Mojave goodness. So that means no workable sleep tracking for a couple weeks.
It’s like living in the 1980s!
Just solved a programming problem that I’ve been avoiding for almost two years now, and the solution is so elegant I can’t believe I didn’t think of it way back when.
And now I will pat myself on the back. 🖐
Custom watch faces would’ve been nice–but that new Solar face is all I’ve ever wanted.
WWDC is a conspiracy perfectly timed to keep us from enjoying the sunshine of the warmer months and keep us locked onto our computers playing with all the new stuff. 😃
Six years ago, I took my last online date.
She has been there through ups and downs, and supported me every step of the way. The dream life I’m living right now would still be locked inside my head if it weren’t for her.
And that dream wouldn’t be truly fulfilled without her in it.
She will forever be my muse, and my love.
Yesterday, while explaining the Size of Mind Constant in context of narrative, I remembered this GIF I saw earlier in the day.
A scene within a scene within a scene within a…well, one more and you’re in a different story. 😃
Rare that a screenplay could almost bring me to tears, but damn, The Olympian was great. Covering in this in today’s Writers Room in Subtext.
When you’re focusing all your creative energy on helping visualize a holistic understanding of Premise.
This looks nice 😃
(Got my invite for Flotato and making sure Subtext plays nice with it. So far, so good and SO MUCH faster and snappier than in-browser)
45 minutes for one sentence. It’s a good sentence. And an important one. But man, one sentence.
You tell me the storyteller is King, and I’m in. #GameofThrones
My 16-year old daughter just told me that the difference between The Matrix and Endgame was that in the latter, growth is dependent on Time and in the former, Time is dependent, or reliant, on growth.
Mind-blown. 🤯
She just described the difference between Linear and Holistic thinking in a simple succinct sentence.
Guess I know who is taking over for me when I retire.
Dude.
That was wholly unsatisfying.
None of it made any sense.
Characters completely changed motivations for no reason.
The explanations at the end felt like an attempt to backup incongruent choices.
#GameofThrones
You know that scene in Captain Fantastic where the kids go to a restaurant for the first time and ask if they’re in a hospital?
Everyone here at Disneyland looks sick.
Disneyland parking: $25, 10 rows, 4 cars every 90 seconds. $2000/3min or $40G every hour.
For parking.
Average 7 hours peak, that’s $280,000 a day just for providing a place to put your car.
Haven’t even eaten yet.
The season 2 finale of #CobraKai was incredible. Even better than the first season. That fight scene–one cut! Unbelievably inspiring work.
Can’t sleep.
An emergent property is a property which a collection or complex system has, but which the individual members do not have. A failure to realize that a property is emergent, or supervenient, leads to the fallacy of division.
The fallacy of division. Going to be using this the next time a writer engages in he said/she said encoding in terms of the relationship.
Some good stuff in that one too on saltiness and how it has nothing to do with sodium or chloride.
In chemistry, for example, the taste of saltiness is a property of salt, but that does not mean that it is also a property of sodium and chlorine, the two elements which make up salt. Thus, saltiness is an emergent or a supervenient property of salt. Claiming that chlorine must be salty because salt is salty would be an example of the fallacy of division.
The romantic relationship between Indy and Marion is an emergent property of Indy and Belloq chasing after the Ark.
From the Wiki page on emergent props:
Groups of human beings, left free to each regulate themselves, tend to produce spontaneous order, rather than the meaningless chaos often feared.
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own. These properties or behaviors emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. For example, smooth forward motion emerges when a bicycle and its rider interoperate, but neither part can produce the behavior on their own.
And then, of course, emergent properties set the basis for consciousness–and what is a story, but a model of this consciousness?
Will and Chuckie’s friendship helps form the consciousness that is Good Will Hunting. Will is the Main Character and the I perspective. Sean is the Influence Character and the You perspective. But Will and Chuckie’s friendship is the We perspective.
Will and Sean’s therapeutic relationship also captures some of this emergence, but Will and Chuckie’s friendship is something Will and Sean don’t possess–true emergence.
And the sign of consciousness.
Perhaps the most fascinating example of emergence is consciousness, i.e., how this state emerges from the interaction of individual neurons that do not possess consciousness themselves. This tempts one to return to Cartesian dualism (the idea that matter [brain] does not bring about the mind), but short of that we get philosophers who reject reductionism without, however, coming up with a satisfactory explanation of the emergence of consciousness.
And why you need a Relationship Story to complete the model of the mind:
If a system has a structure and if that structure has a foundation, then an extension of that foundation introduces new structure components that have extra properties. These properties are emergent.
Perhaps sleep now.
More later.
Doing a lot of development in the past couple of weeks on Relationships in Narrative. Everyone struggles with the concept that We is not I, nor You. This Reddit post on emergent properties confirms my discoveries:
Emergent properties are probably one of the coolest things in science at the moment. The idea that by the way two things interact, the interaction itself can be defined as something else with its own unique properties that don’t directly correlate to the two things interacting gives us a lot more freedom in terms of how things can behave. It’s currently our best idea about consciousness, as it’s not just a physical property of the gooey lump, but rather the interaction of everything in the gooey lump to form something else. What that something else is? Well we have no fucking clue
In a story, that “something else” is the Relationship Story Throughline.
This made me laugh so much. Observation humor. i.redd.it
Learning about “friendly fraud” this fine beautiful Tuesday morning.
Really looking forward to checking out Chernobyl tonight on HBO, written by one of the guys behind The Hangover. Super encouraging to see a writer breaking type.
Phenomenal. I feel so fortunate having had the opportunity to experience this series. #GameofThrones
Missing Link was exquisite. The animation performances were stunning and the storytelling was effortless. The direction confident and the score sublime.
They even listed the animators first in the credits!
I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited by a book release ever. Children of Time was so good.
So awesome how the thing that didn’t make any sense at the beginning of the week (persisting state in VueJS when offline), now makes perfect sense on Friday.
I always feel like I’m constantly learning new things each and every week, and it really makes life fun and enjoyable.
Crazy. Just used Cloudinary to crop, scale, and focus on the face for character images in Subtext–compressed what usually takes 30 minutes into 3 seconds.
The best part about working for myself is that I can take all day tomorrow to recover from The Long Night. That was incredible.
Avengers was surprisingly great, and three hours went by in a snap. 😁 What a great way to revisit the past ten years.
Seeing Avengers because I have to.
I know it’s fashionable nowadays to hate on Drip and love Convertkit, but I’ve received nothing short of stellar support with the former. Hooks in great with Subtext too. I bounce back and forth between the two, but for now–Drip is winning out.
No greater accomplishment then spending the entire coding some newness, only to have it all come together and work just before quitting time. 10 hours straight of pure bliss.
Something real about setting up payroll for your own company.
Also. Tons of paperwork.
Not reading this until June 1.
Stopped here:
The order of business for the day is a showdown between the hot-tempered Bullock and industrial kingpin and U.S. senator George Hearst (Gerald McRaney)–
Once I saw McRaney’s name, I knew all was right in the world.
The Internet is a boundless source of inspiration. I wake each morning excited about what new thing someone posted, or published, while I was sleeping.
Today it was Music in Writing - iA Writer: The Focused Writing App.
I dare you to read this and not hear the intended rhythm and percussion:
As we write on a keyboard, and we compose a melody in our minds, we inadvertently perform a spontaneous percussion that, again, shapes our writing and its own continuation. While we begin, continue and finish a period melodically in our heads, we go with the rhythm of our typing when we can. We compose music as we find words and we play percussion as we type. Rammadamm-pa-daradamm-pa-ratttatttattadaradamm!
But it’s this that connects most with my soul. I write every single day of my life. And the only time it feels right, is when I write faithfully.
A writer perceives carefully and stays true to these perceptions. Clichés are not perceived, they are not felt. They are patterns, repeated mindlessly. Some of your perceptions may not meet the listener’s expectations. And it is exactly those perceptions that do not meet the common expectations that may be worth talking about. Staying faithful to them means you cannot make up special perceptions just to be extraordinary.
I like when giant magazines call you up for a pre-interview on tech in storytelling. 😁
Loving my new watch face, courtesy of Grey Industries and the greatest podcast. Never thought to turn off the corners, and Better Day is a great visualization (one on the left). Swapped out his timer for the Sundial viz on the bottom. I like to know halftime for the day.
Just wrote 1.1K words on writing about the conflict within relationships because EVERYONE–even professional authors and screenwriters–struggle to describe the inequity without referring to the individuals.
It’s not You. It’s not I. It’s WE.
Everyone misses this.
There’s nothing quite likely watching someone else use your app. It reminds of bringing drawings to my supervising animators at Disney & Dreamworks and seeing how different & awful they looked the moment they hit the desk! Looking over someone else’s shoulder is 😱
Listening to Brene Brown on vulnerability just makes me super grateful that I had parents who encouraged creativity, sent me to CalArts, and helped me realize way early on that failure isn’t really a thing.
David Milch on Alzheimer’s and ‘Deadwood: The Movie’
The sun sets on genius.
Easter lookout.
Why I love where I live.
Well, there goes my April and May. Intercom’s new Product Tour looks insane and is exactly the kind of thing I need to help with all these on-boarding meetings.
Just approved the first user-generated Source of Conflict for Subtext. This is going to be huge!!
Tiger won the Masters! For some reason, that’s incredibly hopeful to me for 2019.
Summer is a B-3 or a B-4. I’m an F-6. ☕️
So good I highlighted it last year. Still so good, I’m putting it here:
Which will help your children more—your insight into happiness and meaning, or that you followed breaking political news every day for thirty years?
From The Daily Stoic.
Locke was incredible. More movies with just Tom Hardy driving please.
Thinking of taking Subtext serverless. Mainly because of this podcast. Lots to learn this weekend.
More from the sleep files. This time, my sleep debt.
Wind and Taxes and Sleep.
Super excited about a new show I’m in called Writing with Subtext. A writer familiar with my work wondered what I thought about recording our coaching sessions for all to see.
I said yes!
Putting it together now and it should be out before the end of the week.
This will also never ever get old for me.
A heat map of people listening to my voice to learn about story–all over the world.
Need to work on that South America though.
Watching Mississippi Burning for the first time for Dramatica class tomorrow night. Gene Hackman is the greatest ever.
After four years in business, I finally ordered business cards. I think that makes it official now.
First time with Tony Robbins. Hoping for a major breakthrough.
Wow. This writing every day is having a huge impact on my work. Editing something I wrote only 2.5 months ago, and the writing is so stilted and staccato. You can almost feel me getting revved up and shaking off the cobwebs of occasional posts.
Great discussion today in the Writers Room about Genres and Sub-Genres. All about the difference between a Superhero Comedy (Shazaam) and a Comedic Superhero movie (Thor:Ragnarok) and the implications of that choice on structure.
Expect more in this space!
Once a year I get up at the crack of dawn to watch a bunch of Laravel experts do their thing. Ten hours of new creative insights. It’s a break from the usual routine that inevitably inspires me to create new features for Subtext.
Just really love the iAWriter and Working Copy combo for blogging. All the articles and blog posts on Narrative First are in folders in iAWriter. See a typo or want to fix a word–make the change, commit the change, and Copy pushes the changes up to the repo in GitHub.
Don’ care how many times I read Of Mice and Men. It’s beautiful every time.
Derek Sivers on keeping a journal:
You’re doing this for your future self. Future you will want to look back at this time in your life, and find out what you were actually doing, day-to-day, and how you really felt back then. It will help you make better decisions.
I keep wanting to do this. And I’ll start. And it will feel great. And I’ll do it for a couple of days.
And then I’ll stop.
Because there isn’t enough time. Or someone won’t stop talking me to long enough for me to collect my thoughts.
Wait. Did I just journal?
Earlier this morning, I rewrote a popular article of mine called Applying Pressure to the Main Character. It features a wonderful analogy between the central character of a story and the external pressures descending upon him.
Nothing beats a fresh bag. @bodhileafcoffee
☕️
This, to me, is the hardest thing to learn when growing your own company.
So, instead, celebrate their ability to think and work with autonomy while giving candid and helpful feedback to help them make better decisions in the future.
For far too long, I’ve been holding back collaborating because of perfection. After I read Shawn Blanc on Delegating a couple more hundred times I should be able to let go.
I just spent two hours (and five yesterday) banging my head against the keyboard because I couldn’t tell the difference between an uppercase I and a lowercase l. Which, as I type, look exactly the same.
This sort of thing should be illegal.
Or should I say lIIegai.
Wrote a little something on Quick Easy Wins on Narrative First this morning. Inspired by @taylorotwell and @laravelphp.
This thing actually works!
My technology controls my coffee which controls my technology which controls my coffee ☕️
An infinite loop of delirium. 😃
Milch is credited as a co-writer on the fourth episode of Season 3, “The Hour and the Day.” He did not pen any other scripts, though his advice helped Pizzolatto craft a good chunk of the season.
Dang. That episode was so insanely great, I was hoping Milch would pen more of them this year.
Would love to hear more about this “writing out loud” technique show runner Pizzolato describes in this article:
“He turned me on to writing out loud, which I’d never done before, and I ended up writing most of the second half of the season out loud, which was a much more spiritually healthy thing to do than be alone in a room with a blank page,” Pizzolatto said. “I knew he was going to have to go back and do ‘Deadwood’ and get that on its feet again, but I was just glad we had that time together. It’s something I’m going to remember and take with me for the rest of my life.”
Cleaned up Things too, and now I’m ready for the week! Just need to find some way to remember to maintain daily, and that way I won’t have to spend 2.5 hours on Sunday playing catch-up!
Finally took the time this afternoon to triage a year-and-a-half of podcasts in Castro. Maintenance is the key to reducing overwhelm.
Reading Jobs-to-be-Done from Intercom and floored by the simplicity of this statement:
When you’re solving needs that already exist, you don’t need to convince people they need your product. It’s easier to make things people want than it is to make people want things.
Subtext is only going to get better this year. Just watch as it becomes less about the totality of Dramatica, and more about fixing your story problems.
Someone is experimenting with writing Throughlines that don’t integrate fully within the context of a single narrative.
They could also just watch The Wife. 😁
Just finished running an online class where I was able to explain how stories operate and the Size of Mind Constant that leads to things like Acts, Sequences, and Scenes. Student participation was off-the-charts helpful. Replay available in Subtext tomorrow.
When you use your own app to do work, and suddenly realize how incredibly awesome it is that you built this thing.
Why can’t it rain all the time? Makes writing so much easier.
Sam Raimi’s The Gift just makes me miss the late 90s–a time when you could write a story about a psychic fortune-teller, throw in a crazy Giovanni Rabisi screaming at the top of his lungs, and have yourself a complete movie!
Watching Raimi’s The Gift for the Dramatica Users Group meeting tonight. Cate Blanchett, Giovani Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, JK Simmons, Greg Kinnear–and written by Billy Bob Thorton?! What is this movie and why have I never heard of it before??
Sometimes I write articles just to see how awesome they’ll look in Fiery Feed’s Dark Mode.
No Editing and no Cinematography Awards…crazy. Old institutions are just dying and no one cares anymore. Might as well play the whole thing during commercials.
It’s wonderful to see phenomenal storytelling rewarded handsomely again in Hollywood. Lord Miller FTW!
Author Murakami on not dreaming:
I don’t dream. Stories are stories; a dream is a dream. And for me, writing itself is like dreaming. When I write, I can dream intentionally. I can start and I can stop and I can continue the next day, as I choose. When you’re asleep and having a good dream, with a big steak or a nice beer or a beautiful girl, and you wake up, it’s all gone. But I can continue the next day!
Same.
A little light reading tonight:
“I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.” from “Free Will” by Sam Harris
Dear Lord, Will Smith as the Genie is frightening. 😱
Feeling really good about the next iteration of Subtext. Managed to get File Uploads out of Blade and into VueJS components. Not half as hard as I thought it would be.
Just some little things left to do in terms of accessing accounts, and it should be ready to go.
What took 2.5 hours yesterday of frustration to not figure out, took 20 minutes to resolve this morning. An errant margin-right that went unnoticed.
Thank you, sleep. 🛌
The fact that VueJS would use Robotech to name their latest release just confirms that it’s the greatest thing ever invented.
I was planning on pruning my email list tomorrow. Chillers gave the whole thing meaning with his post on Why I Just Unsubscribed 400 of You
I’m not a business, I’m a person. My goal is connecting with other real people. Most good things in my life have come about because of connections I’ve made online. No joke — even my family.
I always assumed Dark Knight Rises lacked a storyform–until I turned on the Subtitles. That, and the redub of Bane’s voice, made the point of the film infinitely clear 🤣
Going to try the same with Interstellar. 👂
It’s ridiculous how easy it is to change things out in VueJS. Once you have the components scaffolded out, you can drop them in anywhere. True mobility and modularity.
I love it. 😃
Today’s Writers Room in Subtext was crazy rewarding. Started out going over new features and ended up getting into a detailed discussion about the Justification process that fuels every narrative.
Glad I could take time away from the set.
#screenwriters #writingtips
So weird using my own app to work on client’s stories. I mean, don’t get me wrong–it’s a dream come true–so weird that I actually engineered my own experience with the work I do…🤯
Just wrote 600 words on the beauty that is Roma. An effortless dream you need to experience.
Basecamp moves off of Twitter and into a personal blog. Looks like micro.blog called it. 😁
Personal blogs are back, and the intention to share for the sake of sharing–not profit.
Writing for us is not a business, in any direct sense of the word. We write because we have something to say, not to make money off page views, advertisements, or subscriptions. If some readers end up signing up for Basecamp, that’s great. But if they just like to read and not buy, that’s also great.
That’s exactly how I felt, and continue to feel, writing and publishing on Narrative First. Recently, I’ve taken up writing everyday for an hour–keeping that constraint stream of thoughts flowing, sans the self-imposed deadlines.
In fact, the intention is to lessen our dependency on Twitter too, and simply turn Signal v Noise into the independent home for all our thoughts and ideas – big or small.
The only reason I continue with Twitter is to keep up with those who don’t have an adequate RSS feed. I hope the trend is catching…🤒
It’s not like we’re going off Twitter, but Twitter won’t be necessary for you to follow our thinking any more.
Wonderful.
And love the bold new design. 🔥🔥🔥
Paul Jarvis’ new book Company of One is fantastically motivating. Read 15% of it so far and already found great actionable info in it–made a huge difference today in my business. Highly recommended! @pjrvs
I discovered the trick to writing. And I know it’s nothing new, but it’s new to me. Just take the same amount of time everyday to write, regardless of deadlines or goals. Make it a flow that continually runs through you. When it’s ready to be published, publish. There’s no rush.
Teen Titans Go to the Movies was surprisingly great! ⭐️
Buying a ticket for Laracon Online is a no-brainer. $12 for a year’s worth of inspiration? Ok.
The Picture-In-Picture on the Twitter app is pretty dope.
Seth Godin on What is Marketing?
As soon as we take responsibility for the marketing we do and the marketing that’s done to us, we have a chance to make things better (by making better things).
Biggest change I made in late 2018 was going full-force with marketing my business, regardless of how I felt about “selling myself.”
I offer something that makes things better for a certain group of people.
Why not let them know about it?
So, Bird Box:
Malkovich is a Trump supporter.
The door is the border wall.
And the bird box is your iPhone–
–and the birds Twitter.
Alerting you when all the crazies are around. 🙄
Nice cautionary tale, but nothing more…
#scriptchat #writingtips
Hmm. Turns out, if you start watching HEAT at 10:57pm, you’ll see a hooker killed at the stroke of midnight. 🤣
Happy New Year! 🎊 🎉
