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Section MO · character 77 entries 26 August 2026

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  1. Structure: Iron Man

    A structural overview of Iron Man (Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway 2008). Not just a great comic…

    6 min
  2. Structure: A Room With a View

    A structural overview of A Room with a View (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1985). Without any doubt, this is one of…

    6 min
  3. Checklist: 10 Ways To Create An Active Protagonist

    Struggling with a passive protagonist? Let's look into what causes this passivity. Remember, a hero is not 'active' because he…

    2 min
  4. POV: When to Shift?

    Because the first shift of POV in a film may jolt the audience's experience, it works best where this brief…

    3 min
  5. Arcs and Endings (2)

    Should you write a happy ending? Commercial common sense will tell you: yes, you should. Robert McKee says: "Tell the…

    4 min
  6. Arcs and Endings (1)

    The finest writing not only reveals true character, but arcs or changes to that inner nature, for better or worse.…

    2 min