Writer’s Block Part 5: Escalation

It's probably not enough to have a great concept, a goal for the main ...

Writer’s Block Part 6: Contrast

A plot develops through characters' failures and successes. As much as the overall arc ...

Surprise

A Hitchcockian film noir where a romantic murder is not as it seems. Directed ...

Writer’s Block Part 7: Endings

Yup, the best stories have them. Even a cliffhanger that leaves a lot of ...

Writer’s Block Part 1: The Concept

Your story will be strongest if you know, in a nutshell, what your story ...

Writer’s Block Part 2: Conflict

Every story must have conflict. You can make an experimental film that is only ...

Writer’s Block Part 3: The Goal

Connected in some sense to conflict, your main character(s) has to want something at ...

Moments

A grown man transports himself in a vivid memory. He is 10 year-old boy ...

Wish You Were Here

A love triangle with a twist. Melissa is a young woman from Shanghai living ...

Dirty Trick

Mikey stands at the bank teller wicket, anxiously watching as the teller speaks to ...