Tag: story
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Storyssentials: Sentence
Brevity and depth–that’s what you can expect from this post if you reflect. It would seem trivial to call “sentences” essential bits of story. Part of this comes from people who assume that writers toil for words. Photographers use photoshop, but they toil for photos. Graphic designers use illustrator, but they toil for graphics. Writers…
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Safari in Words and Pictures
Think of this like the theatre: if you have a cell phone, turn it off. But if you have a pacemaker, KEEP THAT SUCKER ON! Here we go…. Amy and Eric Malone, our friends, had a baby shower down in Arkansas this weekend. Whether the state in question is pronounced Ar-kin-saw or Ar-can-sis, I’ll leave to…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 3)
Last time, the film hero Doug Welch (and your Daily Bugle rep here) talked through show-don’t-tell, the evil of voice-over and the benefit of imagery when used in voice over’s stead. They also read some comics aloud… LS: That might be a really terrific exercise to sift through [Shawshank] and say what does that show…