Hey guys, time for video #2: Tricks and Traps. I’ll be honest with you, folks, I was pretty bummed to get no comments on the first video....

Whoops, here’s one last post based on a comment on last week’s posts. Longtime commenter Harvey Jerkwater did something rather embarrassi...

Well, folks I thought we were all done with Frozen , but I got an interesting comment on the original checklist post and I thought it dese...

Hi guys, more awesome news: If you’re like me and prefer to listen to your books on audio, then my book will still track you down and clob...

Okay, guys, here’s a big change six months in the making: I’ll now be posting videos!  I had to relearn Final Cut Pro (the lobotomized ve...

In my notes service, this is a note I give all the time. The heroes begin “Act 2” with a goal, and then they reach that goal far too many...

At what point do we decide that we love Anna in Frozen ? It’s not the first shot, waking her sister up to make her make a snowman, where ...

Jennifer Lee is credited as the sole writer of Frozen , but that’s only because the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) contract doesn’t cover...

Yesterday, we talked about how smart it was not to explain the origin of Elsa’s powers in Frozen , but where it really gets interesting is...

Every genre has certain gimmes, and that’s great, so you need to accept those gimmes gracefully, and not fight back against them. I menti...

Usually, it goes like this: Our hero has one longstanding social problem, made clear by the first few scenes. Then the story presents ...

Young Anna enjoys her sister Elsa’s magical ice-powers, but after Elsa hits Anna in the head, Elsa closes up the castle and goes into hidi...