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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. Video: The Formula For A Winning Trailer

    All trailers look the same. Why? Because great movies have the same story components. [debate follows] Here, in the greatest…

    1 min
  2. How To Make Our Myths

    In late 2009 I wrote an essay for Lumina, called Make our Myths. This essay argued that the purpose of…

    7 min
  3. The Hero Must Change!

    Blake Snyder describes it thus: “The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in…

    4 min
  4. How To Write A BlockBuster

    I am not an expert by any means. But this I learned behind the scenes: There are seven rules you…

    2 min
  5. Introduce the Hero on Page One!

    In a new regular series on The Story Department, Jack Brislee will shatter all the screenwriting principles we have so…

    3 min
  6. Writing With A Purpose (2)

    In the long-form drama world of episodic and serialized television it is not the writer-director moniker that holds sway as…

    5 min