20 Comedy and Satire Writing Exercises with Craft Mechanics
20 exercises in incongruity, escalation, timing, status reversal, and the structural mechanics that make prose funny.
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Film ListWorld War II Movies
Ranking the 20 greatest WWII films ever made, plus 20 honorable mentions. From Schindler's List to Das Boot, discover the movies that defined war cinema.
ComedyGreatest Romantic Comedies
The 11 best romantic comedies ever made, analyzed for craft and emotional depth. From Groundhog Day to When Harry Met Sally, films that changed the genre.
DialogueWhat a Belly dancer Taught Me About Writing
Dialogue that sounds like a police report has no life in it. A forceful bellydancer named Marjhani taught the lesson without ever reading a word.
Book MarketingHe Called the References. They Were Mostly Negative.
A prospective client did the thing almost nobody does and rang the people I had worked with. What came back was not what either of us expected, and it was the most useful thing that happened that year.
Book MarketingWhat Building 100 Model Kits Taught Me About Ghostwriting
A hundred plastic kits and fifty-four ghostwritten books turn out to have the same lesson in them, about sequence, about patience, and about the parts nobody will ever see once the thing is finished.
GhostwritingThe Story That Made Me Cry at My Keyboard
The scenes memoir writers skip because they seem boring are usually where the power lives. A quiet moment in a client interview proved it.
Film ListScience Fiction Part 5 – The Solid Craft
The fifth tier of the science fiction ranking. Scott, Cuaron, Glazer, Boyle and Schaffner, plus the films whose best idea arrived and was left alone.
Cult ClassicScience Fiction Part 4 – The Very Good
The fourth tier of the science fiction ranking. Carpenter, Kubrick, Scott, Cameron and Verhoeven, plus the films that built their worlds out of constraint.
Film ListScience Fiction Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the science fiction ranking. Bong, Miller, Blomkamp, Verhoeven and the Wachowskis, plus the films that were sold as the wrong thing.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 2 – The Near Perfect
The second tier of the science fiction ranking. Gilliam, Verhoeven, Miyazaki, Cronenberg and Carpenter, plus the films that withhold on purpose.
Fiction WritingScience Fiction Part 1 – The Masterpieces
The first tier of the science fiction ranking. Lang, Tarkovsky, Carpenter, Cameron, Spielberg and Bird, plus the films that built the vocabulary everybody else borrowed.