Blogmarks : Public marks with tags fiction & screenwriting

Jason Mittell's Just TV blog

by jlesage

blog by television scholar with a book on TV genres;

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Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

by jlesage

It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

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Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents

by jlesage

invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers

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dream

by jlesage

tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point

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Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com

by jlesage & 4 others

zen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling

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Zensufi Park

by jlesage

Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs

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Hack your way out of writer’s block

by jlesage

witty and perhaps even useful

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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by jlesage

"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas

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Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story

by jlesage

one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer

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Self Publishing Blog: 101 Resources for Self Published Writers

by jlesage

tips for creative folks looking for story ideas, fiction or non fiction; links to many sites that stimulate writing

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SOS: Searching Out Stories - Story-Lovers

by jlesage

exhaustive list of stories, news articles that suggest stories; my favorite: "ANIMALS, BIRDS, AMPHIBIANS, FISH and INSECTS – stories, folklore and facts"

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