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"Not key moments connected by vibes." Blatantly call me out like that

What about Robert McKee's Story?

12:32 "Not eastern, not western, not nothin." Northern and Southern: "..."

The person, who don't read books got 1,6 million views... This all you need to know about modern society!

5:13 Nice pulp Fiction short film

LSM hates Truby like he beat him up in middle school

My head canon for The Thing pov is that MacReady was never the protagonist, third perspn omniscient suggests to me the only chatscter who could be, the Thing itself is.

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Strangely, I learned this from playing the sims. In the sims, I like storytelling, I like putting my sims through stuff and seeing how they turn out, like a science experiment. But I was too caught up with making my sims realistic, with only doing what I think my sim would actually do. And I got bored, because normal people are not very exciting. Eventually, I had this revelation, that I’m not supposed to do what I think they would do, I’m supposed to do *what I would like to see them do.* that changed everything. And that applies to storytelling. Don’t have your characters react realistically to everything, have them act *plausibly.* don’t make them do something completely out of character, but it’s okay if a real person probably wouldn’t make the same decision in the same circumstance. Cause they’re not real people.

thank you! this was honestly so helpful

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It's amazing how consistently I can rewatch these videos and in the process manage to work out just a little more of my characters, arcs, and plots. "Actionable" is the term of the century. Your advice is infinitely more usable to me than most other writers'.

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a core belief is a response to external forces or the trauma

There is something intruiging about a guy showing minecraft footage while teaching us about writing. 👏

The "once removed" thing sort of sparks some ideas given how it plays into a handful of characters I played in a game that I'd like to use if I ever ran a game... However, in that case, it wasn't so much falling with each removal so much as raising up. It started with Orphea the First, who for her descendants would become as myth, was the illegitimate child of a dragon who was also a lord of a distant land; the story as it came to be told was her descendants was that in a land to the far east her mother Kirika seduced the dragon under the assumption that her own strengths could only truly have flourished with sorcery, and that would require a magical bloodline which she didn't have enough of. The result of this was her being branded a criminal and conscripted, and the culture's sense of honor and shame placed Orphea the first as having the same social status as a criminal herself save for a direct punishment. So she left the land with her own children, only to presumably die drowned on a beach trying to buy time for the ship carrying her kids to leave for the west. This act of dying in water would repeat twice more, but with hints of betrayal added. Orphea the second started as a slave on a pirate ship, only to help start a mutiny and save the new captain through trickery and magic, only to be pushed into a fight with a squid by the very captain she saved, and died. Orphea the third would die at the hands of a fey creature that beguiles and drowns those that see it, and this happens because she tried to save someone else from this fate, only for that person and the rest of the party to leave her to die. By Orphea the Fourth, we're dealing with a character with trust issues, more ready to run than risk herself, though she may come back with help, and a belief in fate, and a fear of water... So she's wound up in a desert land of iron gods and machines... However, despite all of this legacy, she manages to live, thrive, and overcome the machines and the iron gods and become a demi-god; one interested in helping others follow the path to godhood through the overcoming of fate, one she's already done once, and likely will a few more times. ... And then there's her children, in addition to leaving a town she formed in the hands of her first daughter, Orphea the Fifth, her second daughter Astra recognizes that her mother achieved all she did while being a fool caught out of her depth, and so seeks knowledge and wisdom so she can one day support her mother, and then Orphea the Fourth's illegitimate son named Zagreal born the son of a demi-god of strength named Zenon that she stewarded; and Zagreal has to deal with trying to reconnect with his father by gaining the approval of his stepmother.

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This is incredibly valuable and well done! Thank you!

Your videos are literally a game changer ❤

I am both an architect and a gardener because why the hell not. I plan and outline and structure and all that stuff as an architect but while I'm writing my first drast I let the gardener side of me get more comfortable. As I'm working on I try to stick to my outline as much as I can but sometimes that certainty bothers me and I let the story evolve on its own. When I feel like I have a better idea for a scene or a chapter compared to what the architect created, I let the gardener take the wheel and let it do whatever it does and if it works I use that.

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Man, I just love these videos so much. They're indescribably helpful, and hold my attention so well. It's just great advice every time. For this one, I'm DEFINITELY one of those audience members who complains about pacing. In a lot of my reviews on letterboxd - especially superhero films - I talk about bad pacing. So this video was very eye-opening into why those things happen and what it really means, both for me as an audience member and an amateur writer

I like the idea of something episodic to resurrect favorite characters from older stories.

I’ve never been so happy to have my video interrupted by a sponsorship

Y'all write your backstories chronologically?

i havent had much to say in the way of comments on this channel but ive probably watched every video at least twice at this point. the advice really clicks with me even though im mostly interested in video game writing instead of screenplay writing

Writing is managed chaos. This seems like a great approach to rein it in.

4:40 this was in fact the fresh perspective i've been looking for. thank you

As always, brilliant humble advice made to suit every possible plot

Fucking gold

Lore is an aspect of worldbuilding and trying to pretend they are different is nonsensical. An alternate history story still requires world building and almost the entirety of that is lore writing. Trying to separate lore from worldbuilding is an oversimplification that serves no purpose.

Lucas I'm dying for a video buy you explaining how to write a mystery plot. I know that's a genre and you don't love genres, but I'd love to know how you would go about a film where something is revealed to the audience in parts if that makes any sense.

I don't know about you but my bloingus is huge.

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Aah, the first point is valid but phrased...wrong. I read books for human connection, to be in someone else's mind. Characters absolutely have to be people, in the sense that they have to be human. Now yes, trying to share all of their idysoncrasies and thoughts and desires will never work, so you have to narrow your character work down to make it relevant to the plot and the themes of the story. But when you have picked out the relevant parts of your characterwork, in that you have to make them very people-like.

I absolutely love this video. So straightforward

I like archetypes not as some universal truth but a tool to understand how different personalities interact with each other and conflict Sort of like *pulls out coins*

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Pacing is an emergent property

The amount of people I’ve come across who don’t understand this is astronomical. Thanks for this.

I feel like the punch of horror comes from its *existential* terror. We’re not scared by death, we’re scared by the annihilation of the self, and that in trying to preserve our selves, our selves doom ourselves. As in, the reason we want to live- to sate our curiosity, bond with people, etc-could be the reason we run back into the fire, and ultimately perish.

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Can you make a video on your sticky note outline method that you showed a while back in more detail?

That ad plugin had the same vibe as those "Domain Expansion" memes

That is a great way to handle world building... Lore is the why, the what, when where and who come during storytelling.

Rofl! This was great!

hot tip; dont listen to a guy on youtube who has never made a good short film for advice.

Dude, NEVER STOP PUTTING MINECRAFT CLIPS IN THE END. I absolutely do not get why, but I laugh so hard at it every time.