Something’s been bugging me for a while now. It was something I could define, but couldn’t make into a concise statement. Thanks to the first minute and a half of Terminator: Dark Fate, I can now sum it up in a single statement. Too many creative ventures, especially movies and television, keep ‘shotgunning John’.
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Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: Narrative Mode Pt. 3
By far, this is the shortest section of my in depth look at narrative mode. It is part of what…
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Having established the nature of our narrator in part one, we must now understand how they are saying what they…
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It’s been a while since we visited the Coming To Terms series here. My most recent entry into the WotF…
Continue reading →Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: Beginning, Middle, End
In this edition of coming to terms, I am going to be addressing three terms relating to the parts of…
Continue reading →Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: Big Dumb Object
The term itself deflates the power imparted by the concept. It is believed to have been coined by a reviewer…
Continue reading →Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: The MacGuffin
The fact that this term was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock leads some to believe it is something new. In fact,…
Continue reading →Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: Chekhov’s Gun
On the opposite side of the Deus ex Machina, where the answer is dropped in from out of nowhere and…
Continue reading →Writer Wednesday – Coming to Terms: Deus ex Machina
This will be the first in a series I will be writing about from time to time. Coming to Terms…
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