Skip to the content
A Story Department site
The Story Department Est. 2009 · Karel Segers
Section VE · direction 16 entries 25 August 2026

direction

16 on file
Section VE · direction Showing 7–12 of 16
  1. Killing My Darlings

    This blog started when a certain analysis of Michael Mann's THE INSIDER sparked my frustration. Discussing BLADE RUNNER in a…

    6 min
  2. The Story Revolution

    Nafa - Choctops Meeting: 18/2/08 (Report by John Haly, Thank you to Tony Chu) Karel -a Belgian producer and script…

    11 min
  3. Inciting Incident: Definitions

    Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the point where your story…

    2 min
  4. Learn from other people’s mistakes

    When the Australian Writers Guild NSW organised a night with prominent script editors, one of the questions to the panel…

    2 min
  5. Development in One, Two, Three

    Story Development is a process. I know that and you know that. But sometimes factors of time and budget allow…

    2 min
  6. Logline: Introduction

    McKee's STORY gave me the illusion the logline is one of the last things you ever write. Why? Because during…

    2 min