Typeface: 12-point Courier (or Courier family font) It is not a proportional font (a font that compresses letters and characters to get more words on…
“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, ‘In this world, Elwood… you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.’…
“A story should have a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that order.”—Jean-Luc Godard “The purpose of great narrative fiction is to argue…
A diminutive villager embarks on a quest to destroy a magical ring before its creator can use it to enslave his world.—The Lord of the…
MACGUFFINS, TICKING CLOCKS, AND OTHER PLOT DEVICES MacGuffin: coined by screenwriter Angus MacPhail, this is a plot device, a goal, usually in the form of…
Scrooge WANTS to be left alone at Christmas but he NEEDS to find love and cherish the meaning of Christmas —A Christmas Carol Luke Skywalker…
FRANKENSTEIN (1931) HOOK: Frankenstein and Fritz dig up a body to use in Frankenstein’s experiment CATALYST/INCITING INCIDENT: Fritz steals an abnormal brain B STORY: Frankenstein’s…