This is another series that only got cut from the book at the last minute. Specific Genre Structures, Part 1: Comedy Specific Genre Str...

As I searched for the six toughest decisions in the Checklist movies, I played around with rating each one as (in retrospect) either (R)ig...

Groundhog Day is a classic example of a movie that follows the general 14-point structure of most stories that are about the solving of ...

In college we joked that Shakespeare was just like life: The comedies all end with marriage and the tragedies all begin with one. I certai...

Yesterday, we looked at thriller, mystery/conspiracy, and action movies. The horror movie has much in common with all three, but it’s fun...

These three genres can seem almost interchangeable, and they tended to share the same shelf space at video stores, back when those existed...

Just to review, the general arc of classical structure, as I identify it, can be boiled down to four quarters separated by three turning p...

Okay folks, we’ve tried this before: First I spent most of The Hero Project rethinking the conventional wisdom on structure. Then I co...