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26 November 2006

22 November 2006

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

13 November 2006

11 November 2006

dream

by jlesage
tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point

Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com

by jlesage & 4 others
zen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling

Zensufi Park

by jlesage
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs

02 November 2006

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by jlesage
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story

by jlesage
one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer

23 October 2006

Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers

by jlesage
tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing

11 October 2006

SOS: Searching Out Stories - Story-Lovers

by jlesage
exhaustive list of stories, news articles that suggest stories; my favorite: "ANIMALS, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, FISH and INSECTS – stories, folklore and facts"

Types of Stories for the Telling

by jlesage
useful for writers and teachers; screenwriters will find a lot of basic story types to exploit

10 October 2006

06 October 2006

The Hero's Three-Part Journey

by jlesage
different versions of this mythological structure, often used by screenwriters; somewhat male-oriented

INFlow's Sceenplay Repository

by jlesage & 1 other
many good screenplays, organized mostly by director

02 October 2006

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