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The Last of Us vs Game of Thrones
You Win or You Die
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Free Your Radicals
How I Won a Nobel Prize, and how to harness your characters’ ideologies
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I'm Worried. Are You Worried?
Colm Tóibín, Five Bridges, and how to harness your characters' preoccupations.
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How to Generate the Perfect Existential Crisis
Or: How to Harness Our Biological Imperatives to Make Your Stories More Compelling
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Attachment in Severance
What's with those baby goats?
New Life for Nosferatu
How a Subtle Change to Ellen's Backstory Adds New Potential to an Old Classic
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...
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Love/Pain: Attraction and Repulsion in Intermezzo
Investigating the Magnetism of Sally Rooney and her characters
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Kinetic Kamala
The Story Energies Election Special
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It Follows
You can run, but you can't escape Story.
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Sisters!
Repulsion and Attraction in His Three Daughters
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Harness the Story Energies: A Star-Crossed Case Study
Boy meets girl, huh? What if their families hate each other...
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