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The Story Department Est. 2009 · Karel Segers
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Section N · Story & Structure 348 entries 27 August 2026

Story & Structure

The craft of telling a story starts with structure skills.

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  1. The Story Plan (1)

    What’s the story? That’s the first thing anyone asks a writer and it is, unquestionably, seen as the province that…

    4 min

  2. Touch of Evil and the Hero problem

    I have liked Touch of Evil since before it became fashionable in 1998, at the time of its rerelease. Recently…

    6 min

  3. Thank you Spielberg! Today I’m proud to be a (half) Belgian.

    Thanks to Paramount Pictures, the Belgian ambassador in Australia and my friend Nathalie Surmont, I had the privilege of seeing…

    3 min

  4. Unity of Action (3)

    At the end of Act Two of Die Hard, John McClane is effectively faced with his own self (note the…

    4 min

  5. Unity of Action (2)

    Breaking the principle of unity of action is a directorial decision, not a writer’s one. For one reason or another…

    4 min

  6. Unity of Action

    Often discussions about taste in film boil down to subjectivity. But, however broad a definition of good or bad may…

    4 min
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