Archive - The Story Energies

The Last of Us vs Game of Thrones

You Win or You Die

May 17 •

April 2025

Free Your Radicals

How I Won a Nobel Prize, and how to harness your characters’ ideologies

Apr 30 •

I'm Worried. Are You Worried?

Colm Tóibín, Five Bridges, and how to harness your characters' preoccupations.

Apr 9 •

March 2025

How to Generate the Perfect Existential Crisis

Or: How to Harness Our Biological Imperatives to Make Your Stories More Compelling

Mar 25 •

Explore/Protect

The never-ending potential of the pursuit of happiness

Mar 15

February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

Looking Back, Looking Forward—to 2025!

A review of all that's happened since we launched in October, and a look ahead to what's coming next year...

Dec 31, 2024 •

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