So here we have the long-awaited third episode of the Secrets of Story Podcast, hosted by myself and James Kennedy! WARNING: This episode is...

I was playing coy before, lest I ruin the surprise, but now you’ve had lots of time to listen to the second podcast, so I’ll go ahead and di...

“Matt Bird is like Mike from ‘Breaking Bad.”

It’s been a mighty long wait, and many of you were getting mighty impatient, I know, but I’m glad to announce that the Kindle version of the...

The Secrets of Story Podcast · Episode 2: The Easy Way Well, folks, it’s been a month since Episode 1, but life got in the way. We first ...

Hey guys, it seems impossible to go on, but we must go on. Let’s all pretend that my silly little story advice has any meaning in post-apo...

But now that freaks me out.

I was going to post more about Star Trek Beyond , and I was supposed to edit the new podcast that James and I recorded on Monday night to po...

I just watched Star Trek Beyond and boy is it limp. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not an utter horrorshow like the last one— If I had to ...

My last video got me lots of hits and followers, and they’ve all been waiting patiently for video #3, so here it is: Moments of Humanity! ...

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You guys know I hate moral hypocrisy in stories. You should not, for instance, hold your heroes to a different standard than your villai...

The “Stranger Things” pilot has a lot of work to do. First and foremost, it has to introduce 13 main characters (really 14, because we as...

Hi guys, today is the official release date of my book. That’s a little meaningless now, because they went ahead and sent it out two weeks ...

So for the last two weeks, we’ve had videos, and there are more to come, but today I thought I’d launch into yet another new multimedia ve...

Let’s look at the second scene in the pilot for “Stranger Things”. After a scary glimpse of a monster killing someone in a government lab,...

Is “Stranger Things” a series or a miniseries? In many ways, this feels more like the first hour of a miniseries than the first hour of a...

Will Byers disappears after a night playing Dungeons and Dragons with his middle school friends Mike, Lucas and Dustin. His mother Joyce ...