Ground Your Reader, or Why Storyboarding is Important

/ June 8, 2011

The Room is our generation’s Rocky Horror*. It’s at best a D-List movie with horrible stock footage and acting right out of a CCD production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The writing is Nemesis-worthy. Basically, if The Room was being graded for actual artistic merit, it would beyond fail. However! The Room is a great learning experience. Tommy Wiseau’s “masterpiece”

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Stories in Song

/ June 7, 2011

Steve Almond talks about song and how it’s a great way to study concise storytelling. When you think about it, it makes sense; songwriters have to do it in three minutes. Because I can, I want to share my top five* storytelling songs. As always, this isn’t in any particular order and subjected to change at my discretion. No Surprize

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In a Word, Awesome

/ June 6, 2011

This past weekend marked the first annual Weekend of Awesome. If you lurk around here or around Kat’s, Erinn’s, or Pam and Quita’s blog you might have heard something about it*. WOA was our version of a writer’s retreat. Neat. So it was a conference?No, conference and retreat are entirely different. The purpose of a retreat is to focus on

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Excuses to Toss Aside

/ June 3, 2011

I have plenty excuses for things: exercise, legitimate blog posts, laundry. When it comes to writing, I can’t think of anything though I’m sure there’s something I use. *racks brain* *plays Bejeweled* If I had one excuse it involves cash. Since I’m half of the Gregoire-Poirier super force, all finances are shared. This means that even if I want to

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Zombie Video Humor for the Tired Soul

Ag2218/ June 2, 2011

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Oh my… sorry I missed last week, friends. I hope you didn’t think my absence was due to being taken up during the Rapture, or getting killed by a bunch of crazy people at the Anime Central Convention. Unfortunately, I was just exhausted

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