C.M. Subasic's Blog: What are you thinking?

What does this current political climate have to do with storytelling?

I don't know if I have the answers, but I do have questions. What do you think?

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Are the ones that will help you develop your craft.

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Can you tell what's missing from this review? In this blog post, an unearthed letter is the starting point for a review of where a writer (me) stumbled.

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The more I write, the more I realize that recognizing emotional granularity is a skill. Learning to differentiate emotions has a nifty benefit: It’s something you can also use in your personal life.

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Writers are usually quite diligent in developing their protagonist, the settings, the concept. All great stuff.

But there’s one area where I typically need to nudge and prod the authors I work with. That is, in developing the bad guy.

The thing is, the bad guy is where you’ll find your story meat. In thinking through what he wants and why, you’ll discover solid plot points that can fill out the narrative. Without this thinking, the story is half formed.

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If the relationships in your story are flat or confusing you, these acting analysis techniques can help to heighten the dynamics and unravel the tangles. They’re also great idea generators.

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Why do we read them? Why do we need them? How does knowing about this need help writers to craft their stories?

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"If you’re going to tell a story, come with some attitude, man.”

Writing about music isn’t easy. It’s tempting to write about the music itself, because it tells the story so well. Problem is, music isn’t a thing, per se. It’s more like an echo chamber of our hearts.

Don Cheadle captures this so well in Miles Ahead.

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In this blog post, I discuss how writers can open up the world of possibilities by considering point of view from a more powerful angle:

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