How Backstory Creates Story, Part 1: Mining Backward
Both Succession’s creators and the uniformly brilliant actors who portray the Roys and their vicious little circle of cronies take…
Month: March 2024
Story versus Storyteller (Or Why I’m Mad at Gus Van Sant)
I know I shouldn’t be mad at Gus Van Sant. I don’t know the guy, for starters. But when I…
Rethinking Reese Witherspoon
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Let me start by saying I have…
Past, Present, and Future: Your Characters—and You—Live in All Three
The writing you do today—every day—is an amalgam of the writing you have done every other day before it, the…