I teach Sunday school, motherf*cker
This is perfect.
LOL. When you get religious on Colbert, he knows his stuff, it’s pretty hilarious how he trolls his guests.
(Source: drunkonstephen, via fraterpillar)
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April 1, 2013
April 1, 2013
April 1, 2013
Pixar’s rules for storytelling:
- You admire a character for trying more than you do for their successes.
- You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
- Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
- Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.
- Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.
- What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?
- Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.
- Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.
- When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.
- Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.
- Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.
- Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.
- Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.
- Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.
- If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.
- What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.
- No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.
- You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.
- Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.
- Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?
- You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?
- What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.
December 31, 2012
I’m all about that All-Day Sushi Lifestyle.
December 9, 2012
Found this little gem recently. Great little Easter Eggs these two have with them.
December 4, 2012
Will we appeal to the crystals and the stars or to our minds?
(via Joanne Manaster)
I’m worried this time has already arrived.
November 30, 2012
September 24, 2012
Precisely
He obviously has ideas that are better than his music. Marilyn Manson speaking the truth.
(Source: ltm, via youredeadpotter)
September 19, 2012
June 21, 2012
Reality Television
I’ve come to realize, after working in reality television for a month, how absurdly fake it all is. The people in these shows are very boring unless there is drama injected into the situation. Cameras bring that drama into these dull situations and make entertaining television for housewives, who have dull lives themselves.
It’s been a pretty enlightening experience for me, but believe it when I say that I will likely never get into reality television, it’s just too fake. An upside to reality shows, though, is that you don’t need to employ writers, and partof why I don’t like reality television is that I hope to be a writer in a year or two.
But, all-in-all, I am thoroughly enjoying my time in New York and am already attempting to make plans to move here after graduation. I hope your Summer is going well and wish you the best of luck with everything.
-John Cuenin
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