Few Presidential candidates have appeared to be faltering more than Joe Biden. The U.S. Presidential election is seven months away, and Biden’s prospects look dismal. His cognitive abilities have been up for question these last few months, with Biden losing his train of thoughts mid-speech several times. Biden has long had a reputation for being… Continue reading Joe Biden, Magnificent Trojan Horse of the Democratic Party
Category: Writing
How Waiting in Line Is the Purest Form of Democracy
Nobody likes waiting in line. You’re waiting in line at the DMV, for concert tickets, movie tickets, at the theme park. In non-First World societies or in First World societies that experience temporary collapse, waiting in line takes the form of breadlines, food lines, lines for assistance. Yet the alternative is worse: a mob rush… Continue reading How Waiting in Line Is the Purest Form of Democracy
Causality Story Sequencer: Stroke-of-Genius Plot Structuring Software You Need
For fiction or scriptwriters, it’s the age-old problem of balancing the creative right-brain side of masterful prose, characters, inner thoughts, and scene descriptions–what I collectively will call “writing”–with the structured left-brain planning side of making and moving around chunks of plot. The balance always seems to be off: you’re always too far in one direction… Continue reading Causality Story Sequencer: Stroke-of-Genius Plot Structuring Software You Need
Story Premise Examples: 500 Sample Story Premise/Loglines to Work From
If you cannot get your story premise pounded into solid shape, you don’t have a story. So why should you proceed? When constructing your own story premise, it helps to use other premises as models. Here are almost 500 story premises arranged by genre. Story Premise / Logline Genre 1 Terrorists kidnap the Vice President… Continue reading Story Premise Examples: 500 Sample Story Premise/Loglines to Work From
How to Build a Solid Story Premise
Get your story premise right, and the rest of the story-writing experience will go much smoother. Crafting a solid story premise is your come-to-Jesus moment. It’s the moment of reckoning. It’s your story skeleton’s skeleton. Do this first. Do not write the story, the novel, the screenplay, and then reverse-engineer the premise to fit the… Continue reading How to Build a Solid Story Premise