Section N · Story & Structure
348 entries
27 August 2026
Story & Structure
The craft of telling a story starts with structure skills.
Section N · Story & Structure
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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…
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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…
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The Hero Must Change!
Blake Snyder describes it thus: “The Covenant of the Arc is the screenwriting law that says: Every single character in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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