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People who are rated as good storytellers exhibit a purpose-oriented mindset and big-picture thinking more often than others

tags: movies-television, speaking, storytelling

Soon enough, artificial intelligence may be able to recreate the sounds — but there will be something missing.

tags: movies-television, storytelling, goodreads

And other oxymoronic observations about the oeuvre of Ron Oliver, the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director

tags: books, storytelling, creepy

Lovecraft’s and King’s fictional whip-poor-wills draw on widespread Indigenous, European, and American beliefs about the species.

tags: animals, history, creepy, storytelling

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

tags: movies-television, comedy-fun-humor, storytelling

Live from New York, it’s an idiosyncratic list of ‘SNL’ moments we’re still thinking about—from the Belushi/Aykroyd/Radner years to the Eddie Murphy era to Sandler, Fey, Hader, and beyond.

tags: memory-recall, storytelling

Artists may jumble time for dramatic effect. But your unconscious is always putting the narrative in order.

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I came across this recent video from Vicky Zhao last week and loved her brief summary of how she grew in her ability to clearly articulate ideas on the spot by getting to the point, using story str…

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How to apply powerful storytelling to design a compelling and memorable digital experience on a landing page. A case study of the [Smart Interface Design Patterns landing page](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com/).

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Storytelling is a powerful tool for any UX designer. It helps create a product and understand the people who use it. In this article, Marli Mesibov takes a real-life example of an app she helped to build in 2017 and explains five steps you can use to help you build a story into your user experience.

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The basic building blocks of storytelling

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30 years of storytelling experience, in a box? Yes, that’s what you get with my latest guides – check out Storyteller Tactics here.   My older material is here on the website, including…

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Create quick UX design storyboards using the mix-and-match library and template. Pick and change the character's pose, expression, gestures, and more to fit your scenario.  Adjust the background and create close-up scenes to describe your solution all from one magic card 🧚‍♀️. Follow the in...

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Crafting a good experience is like telling a good story. Improve your UX with these 6 storytelling principles.

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How to Align User Research Presentations for Decision Making

tags: behaviors, scams, storytelling

2018’s ‘Summer of Scam’ was just the latest in a strong American tradition.

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Think of them more as “enhancers” than “spoilers.” Knowing what will happen in a movie, TV show or book can provide a tantalizingly pleasing feeling, help you understand the plot and give you a sense of control during chaotic times.

tags: reading, storytelling

Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro.

tags: storytelling, writing

Ten great opening paragraphs from one iconic author.

tags: github, storytelling, video

Accepted as [NeurIPS 2024] Spotlight Presentation Paper - HVision-NKU/StoryDiffusion

tags: spycraft, storytelling

It all goes back to one man in the 1950s: a military-intelligence expert in psychological warfare.

tags: influence-persuasion, storytelling

"Storytelling is one of the most powerful marketing and leadership tools there is," says communications expert Kelly D. Parker. She explains how stories make proposals of all kinds more memorable — and shows how you can craft a compelling narrative to connect, persuade and drive meaningful action.

tags: influence-persuasion, presentations-presenting, storytelling

Every startup leader should practice flexing their storytelling muscles. To help warm these muscles up, we’ve rounded up some of our best advice about storytelling in business that’s been featured in the Review.

tags: folklore, storytelling

Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world

tags: books, folklore, storytelling

Westerners tend to think of Japan as a land of high-speed trains, expertly prepared sushi and ramen, auteur films, brilliant animation, elegant woodblock prints, glorious old hotels, sought-after jazz-records, cat islands, and ghost towns.

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⛺🪵🔥 Free Storytelling Masterclass (+ PDFs) (https://lnkd.in/eiFscUtf), a comprehensive guide with 9 modules on storytelling, PDF worksheets, 1-pager… | 52 comments on LinkedIn

tags: datasets, storytelling

Read For Free, Anywhere, Anytime. An online library of over 1000 classic short stories. H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter.

tags: leadership, storytelling

Storytelling is an important leadership skill, and executives who want to succeed should master five types of narrative: Vision stories, which inspire a shared one; values stories that model the way; action stories that spark progress and change; teaching stories that transmit knowledge and skills to others; and trust stories that help people understand, connect with, and believe in you.

tags: history, physics, storytelling

From ancient fables to the latest science theory, invisibility represents some of humankind’s deepest fears and desires

tags: copywriting, storytelling, writing

…and how they got that way

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The stories of oral societies, passed from generation to generation, are more than they seem. They are scientific records

tags: behaviors, imagination, storytelling

What a close study of “inner speech” reveals about why humans talk to themselves.

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Do you go to great lengths to avoid spoilers for your favorite TV show? Research suggests that doing so may not always be justified. Here's why.

tags: deep-learning, generative, storytelling, video

Find it here, via Ryan Watkins.  Further improvement is required, but the pace of current breakthroughs is remarkable.

tags: books, scifi, storytelling

The pronouncements of French theorist Jean Baudrillard could sound a bit silly in the early 1990s, when the internet was still in its infancy, a slow, clunky technology whose promises far exceeded what it could deliver.

tags: deep-learning, generative, movies-television, storytelling

Alphabet's DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts Engadget's Kris Holt reports: Dramatron is a so-called "co-writing" tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions and dialogue. The idea is that human writers will be abl...

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Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.

tags: prodmgmt, storytelling

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21K votes, 289 comments. 5.5M subscribers in the coolguides community. Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like…

tags: emotions, movies-television, storytelling

Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…

tags: movies-television, storytelling, writing

The most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

An index page listing Tropes content. A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably …

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Before fame, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master's thesis on the shapes of stories for the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

In FX’s surprise hit, the 31-year-old actor plays a tormented culinary genius who returns home to run his family’s Chicago sandwich shop. We caught up with White in his native Brooklyn to learn what it took to get in the kitchen.

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Writer @GretchenMdm9524 gives a brief history of 1929's 10 Commandments for Detective Fiction and offers some modern updates.

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The basic building blocks of storytelling

tags: influence-persuasion, storytelling

Everything you need to know about Howard Suber Of UCLA Film School Explains How To Tell A Story

tags: chatbots, deep-learning, nlp, storytelling

We used GPT-3 and DALL·E to generate a children's storybook about Ash and Pikachu vs. Team Rocket. Read the story and marvel at the AI-generated visuals!

tags: attention, behaviors, storytelling

The person who can capture and hold attention is the person who can effectively influence human behavior. Here's how to do it.

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Telling a story is the most powerful way to activate our brains . If you want to become a better storyteller, UCLA Film School Howard Suber says you

tags: prodmgmt, storytelling

Storytelling is a powerful technique for building data-informed products.

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Getting people to notice your product on the web is hard. Getting them to understand what you do is even harder. One of the biggest challenges startups face is cutting through the noise and…

tags: brandmgmt, storytelling

As entrepreneurs, Diane Engelman, PhD, and JB Allyn, MBA, have been perfecting a methodology over the past 12 years that is burgeoning in…

tags: movies-television, storytelling, writing

Andrew Kevin Walker, writer of the movie "Seven", gives five tips on how to improve your writing.

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Next month, the doyen of hardboiled crime writers is publishing a new book, 10 Rules of Writing. The following is a brief summary of his advice

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Design Musings #1

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

"We figured the best way to make the audience understand—and care—would be to connect his house to a relationship, and unfinished business," says director Pete Docter

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157K subscribers in the startup community. Reddit's space to learn the tools and skills necessary to build a successful startup. A community meant to…

tags: behaviors, storytelling

Among Filipino hunter-gatherers, storytelling is valued more than any other skill, and the best storytellers have the most children.

tags: reading, storytelling

These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche

tags: influence-persuasion, speaking, storytelling

To engage leaders, colleagues, and clients, use this simple technique

tags: comedy-fun-humor, language-linguistics, memes, storytelling

There couldn’t be a ‘Is This a Pigeon?’ without a ‘Beware of Doug’.

tags: folklore, goodreads, storytelling

Smithsonian’s James Deutsch says that behind the character in the Marvel Studios series lies the oft-told story of “guile” outsmarting authority.

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"On December 20 there flitted past us, absolutely without public notice, one of the most important profane anniversaries in American history, to wit, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the introduction of the bathtub into These States. Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag.

tags: storytelling, ui-ux

Effective storytelling involves both engaging the audience and structuring stories in a concise, yet effective manner. You can improve your user stories by taking advantage of the concept of story triangle and of the story-mountain template.

tags: goodreads, storytelling, writing

From Washington Irving to Kristen Roupenian.

tags: comedy-fun-humor, goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

Loren Bouchard’s accidental career as a comedy mogul has now brought his TV family to the big screen.

tags: ideas, storytelling

'We were telling the story of a phone that would change everything. So that’s what we had to build.'

tags: goodreads, storytelling, writing

On the value of unconscious association, or why the best advice is no advice.

tags: language-linguistics, storytelling, writing

Maybe it has happened to you: a stranger catches your eye while you peruse the plant identification section of the library, or wander a mossy hillock speckled with Amanita bisporigera, or shuffle a…

tags: movies-television, storytelling

However powerful the villain, the scruffy detective always outwits them

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Few genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

The show balanced improvisation and careful planning thanks to its overarching structure.

tags: prodmgmt, storytelling

If you want to move to a Jeff Bezos–style executive meeting without PowerPoint, with a six-page narrative memo, you mustn't forget the narrative. Here's why

tags: animation, storytelling, video

From sequence to shot to frame, explore our studio pipeline.

tags: behaviors, storytelling, ui-ux

Playing with reality

tags: books, goodreads, history, storytelling

The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

My son Max loved the Star Wars movies. I would take him to various showings of them. And for his tenth birthday, he had a Star Wars–themed birthday party. And boy, did those kids love it! So I thou…

tags: goodreads, storytelling

The beloved Christmas short story may have been dashed off on deadline but its core message has endured

tags: influence-persuasion, speaking, storytelling

Bill Carmody is a twenty-five year global keynote speaker. He’s had the incredible privilege to present in Brazil with Sir Richard Branson and in India with executives from Fortune 100 companies. Recently he had the distinct privilege to teach several of the UK Brexit government officials how to become more powerful public speakers. Bill Carmody is a twenty-five year global keynote speaker. He’s had the incredible privilege to present in Brazil with Sir Richard Branson and in India with executives from Fortune 100 companies. Recently he had the distinct privilege to teach several of the UK Brexit government officials how to become more powerful public speakers. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

For our reporter, “Nightmare Alley” recalls a childhood spent working the circuit with his parents. Carnies like the World’s Smallest Woman welcomed him when cruel classmates didn’t.

tags: comedy-fun-humor, movies-television, storytelling, writing

David Owen’s 2000 Profile of George Meyer: Humor has to reframe reality, Meyer says. “It’s like seeing in two dimensions and then opening the other eye or looking through a View-Master and suddenly seeing in three.”

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

Margaret Talbot’s 2007 Profile of the show’s creator, with a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of “The Wire” ’s fifth season.

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

From 1999: “There has certainly never been anything like it on TV, and on network TV there never could be anything like it.”

tags: movies-television, sports, storytelling

Celebrating the greatest hockey movie of all time—and one the best “malaise days” Seventies films ever.

tags: storytelling, writing

Learn how to write well. Topics include figuring out what to write about, how to write an introduction, the writing process, writing style, and copyediting.

tags: goodreads, storytelling

The heart of the world’s oldest long poem is found in its gaps and mysteries.

tags: books, storytelling

Her gentle, heartwarming stories seek to soothe our troubled souls. They also aim to blow up the entire genre.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

Ahead of the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark hitting cinemas, here are 30 organised crime flicks you must see before you sleep with the fishes

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Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot. All elements must eventually come into play at some point in the story. Some authors, such as Hemingway, do not agree with this principle.

tags: deep-learning, storytelling

A primer on automated story generation and how it it strikes at some fundamental research questions in artificial intelligence.

tags: storytelling, writing

From the ones you know to a few new tricks. Pleonasm, anyone?

tags: discovery, prodmgmt, storytelling

Almost exactly a year ago, I started a little boutique software company called Report Card Writer. As the name suggests, my flagship software product does pretty much one thing: it helps teachers write report card comments faster. Its core technical functionality is part survey form, part template-filler-inner, with a few extra bolt-on features that make it easy to create and populate the form and template, respectively.

tags: behaviors, movies-television, storytelling

It feels good to control what will terrify you.

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Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

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Writers keep notebooks because ideas come in the most unexpected of places. Notebooks contain a junkyard of treasures waiting to be discovered. They provide ports of entry to the imagination. And as Joan Didion once wrote, a place to keep “on nodding terms with the people we used to be”. Thomas Hardy kept four … Continue reading "Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo"

tags: movies-television, storytelling

Learn the major plot points and story structure of Toy Story directed by John Lasseter.

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Having trouble developing the plot of a story? You aren't alone—this is no small task. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. This guide is here to help.

tags: broadcasting, movies-television, storytelling

Behind Chris McCarthy’s plan to transform the ViacomCBS network from a linear cable channel to a multi-platform content machine.

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A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best.

tags: python, storytelling

Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python. - facebookresearch/fairseq

tags: language-linguistics, storytelling

Jack may have been climbing that beanstalk for more than 5,000 years

tags: movies-television, storytelling

Sixty years ago, the company modernized animation when it used Xerox technology on the classic film

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Wattpad is turning these user-generated stories into books, TV shows, and movies.

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

Twenty years after it aired, David Chase and Co. look back on one of the wildest, boldest, funniest episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ ever made

tags: comedy-fun-humor, storytelling, writing

The first major interview with one of the most revered comedy writers of all time.

tags: language-linguistics, movies-television, storytelling

Good finales offer catharsis. The best deny us closure altogether.

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Chris Fralic reminded me of this piece I wrote for Ode. Great stories succeed because they are able to capture the imagination of large or important audiences. A great story is true. Not necessaril…

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

On the original show, which is now streaming for the first time on Disney+, bits of fabric and glue and yarn become complexly real.

tags: motivation, movies-television, podcast, speaking, storytelling

Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with entertainment icon Jerry Seinfeld (@jerryseinfeld). Jerry’s comedy career took off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1981. Eight years later, he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to create what was to become the most successful comedy series in the … Continue reading "The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success (#485)"

tags: speaking, storytelling

Tips from a comedian and a journalist on the art of going from small talk to big ideas. Try these out at the next summer wedding reception.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

The director Chloé Zhao narrates a scene from her movie featuring Frances McDormand and David Strathairn.

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Take notes everywhere, embrace Wikipedia wormholes and other handy tips

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It’s not only writer’s intuition. Use personality psychology to create just the right blend of surprise and believability

tags: movies-television, storytelling

From ‘The Room’ to ‘Eraserhead’ to ‘Rocky Horror,’ these are the best movies to ever inspire deep obsession

tags: books, goodreads, spycraft, storytelling, writing

He wanted to learn about the Miami drug world and had been told I could help.

tags: storytelling

Before fame, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master's thesis on the shapes of stories for the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.

tags: storytelling

When it comes to public speaking, the one thing your audience needs most is a good hook. Hooking attention takes creativity.

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Fine-tuning GPT-2 to generate stories based on genres

tags: deep-learning, ideas, storytelling

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

tags: emotions, storytelling

Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. Researchers have approached the classification of emotions from one of two fundamental viewpoints:that emotions are discrete and fundamentally different constructs that emotions can be characterized on a dimensional basis in groupings

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DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

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Learning how to write a short story is the perfect place to begin your writing journey. But it's an art—they're vastly different from full-length novels.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, before he became short-hand for a filmmaker cursed with cosmically bad luck, before he became the sole American member of seminal British comedy group Monty Python, Terry Gilliam made a name for himself creating odd animated bits for the UK series Do Not Adjust Your Set.

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'Great literature is one of two stories,' we often quote Leo Tolstoy as saying: 'a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.' That's all well and good for the author of War and Peace, but what about the thousands of screenwriters struggling to come up with the next hit movie, the next hit television series, the next hit platform-specific web and/or mobile series?

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tags: animation, storytelling

From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.

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We have grown very used to the idea of time travel, as explored and exploited in so many movies and TV series and so much fiction. Although it feels like it’s been around forever, it isn’t an ancient archetypal story but a newborn myth, created by H.G. Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. To put it another way, time travel is two years older than Dracula, and eight years younger than Sherlock Holmes.

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According to science fiction writer William Gibson, a book's opening should be an inviting enigma to the reader—and a motivational benchmark for the writer.

tags: behaviors, storytelling

The best lessons from films and fiction on what makes a hero

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A machine mapped the most frequently used emotional trajectories in fiction, and compared them with the ones readers like best.

tags: goodreads, movies-television, storytelling

Claudia Dreifus: You are sometimes called “the Balzac of Baltimore.” What’s your take on the title? David Simon: When people say that, I go, “Did you just call me a ball sac?” I usually goof on that. I haven’t read all of Balzac. I keep slicing up society, taking a different slice each time, thinking, eventually I’ll have a cake. That’s Balzac. That’s what he did. What I never do is raise my hand and say, “This could be a hit. Make this because this could be a hit.” The minute I do that, I’m done as me.

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Fabula is an analogue framework for fiction writers and screenwriters

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When it came to giving advice to writers, Kurt Vonnegut was never dull.

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TVs this year will ship with a new feature called "filmmaker mode," but unlike the last dozen things the display industry has tried to foist on consumers, this one actually matters. It doesn't magically turn your living room into a movie theater, but it's an important step in that direction.

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Learning to appreciate the future of literature.

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Bowie placed the shotgun on the ground and picked up the .22 rifle. “I always wanted one of these little guns when I was a kid,” he said. “That time they got me in Florida,” Chicamaw said, “and sen…

tags: programming, storytelling

Quick tip: The new software package, Storyboarder, makes it 'easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.' You can create a story idea without actually making a full-blown movie and see how it looks. Storyboarder is free. It's open source.

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tags: brandmgmt, marketing, prodmgmt, storytelling

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Improvising legend. Filmmaking maverick. Comedy savant. Screenwriting secret weapon. Elaine May is one of the most important people in American pop cultural history. Why isn’t she more celebrated? That’s exactly how she wants it.

tags: brandmgmt, naming, startups, storytelling

A change starts with a story.

tags: movies-television, storytelling

Michael Clayton is a great film. I was reminded of this fact a while back on Twitter. Not that I needed to be reminded — I tweet about the…

tags: prodmgmt, storytelling

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In the wake of the Pepsi debacle, brands should turn up the authenticity in their marketing budgets with more long-form films and documentaries.