Harness

The Last of Us vs Game of Thrones

You Win or You Die

May 17 •

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 •

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

Attachment in Severance

What's with those baby goats?

Feb 6

Dancing on Broken Glass

Or: How to Slice Open Your Story's Arteries and Let Hope Spill Free

Jan 29

Christmas Spirit

... And How to Generate Atmosphere in Your Stories

Dec 24, 2024

Nobody Wants This, Except Joanne and Noah, Who Want This a LOT!

Dec 20, 2024

Ask what your story world can do for you.

Dec 12, 2024

Mystery and Manners in Fallout

How to charge your story worlds with Gravitational Energy

Dec 6, 2024

Love/Pain: Attraction and Repulsion in Intermezzo

Investigating the Magnetism of Sally Rooney and her characters

Nov 26, 2024

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