Deep dives into modern screenwriting, visual storytelling, and how AI is reshaping the creative process.
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The interesting part isn't what they can do, it's what it costs. How to build limits that drive the story.
Writing Magic Systems: Limitations Create Conflict
Using the character who doesn't know so the audience can learn, and so the surrogate is a character, not a device.
The "Fish Out of Water": Introducing Audience Surrogates
Deliver lore through action, conflict, and the surrogate, never have one character tell another what they both know.
Exposition in Fantasy: Avoiding the "As You Know, Bob" Trope
Give them a logic and a way to connect, so they feel like beings, not props.
Writing Non-Human Characters: AI, Aliens, and Creatures
Find the new angle, who we follow, what the story is about, so the same apocalypse feels new.
Dystopian Fatigue: How to Write Fresh Post-Apocalyptic Stories
Set the rules early. Fixed, branching, or rewrite, and don't break them. How to keep time travel coherent.
Time Travel Logic: Creating a Consistent Set of Rules
Speculative fiction rooted in Black and Indigenous perspectives, research, center the perspective, let culture drive the world.
Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism: New Perspectives
Obstacles, time, resources, when the journey has to go through the world, the story feels grounded.
The Fantasy Map: Why Geography Matters to Plot