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Keith Elder
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 3:31pm \| IP Logged \| 1

The nice thing about that sort of advice is that it is understandable and implementable. Some writing advice can be rather airy and vague.

Another simple piece of advice I've read and taken to heart was "whenever you're stuck, have something else terrible happen to the hero." You can't go wrong stacking the deck against the main character, as long as it's fixed in the end.

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Ernest Degollado
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 3:36pm \| IP Logged \| 2

I guess it's all in how well the story is told. One of my favorite movies is MEMENTO and it begins with the end and backtracks throught the rest of the movie. I have to ditto Darren's comments about JB's knack for telling good time travel stories.

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John Mietus
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 4:04pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Darragh Greene wrote:

How do you follow Homer?

In medias res, of course.

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Darragh Greene
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 4:24pm \| IP Logged \| 4

John Mietus wrote:

Darragh Greene wrote:

How do you follow
Homer?

In medias res, of course.

Why, John, you're another Apollonius of Rhodes!

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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 4:30pm \| IP Logged \| 5

Putting pencil to paper to plot the story? Is DP done as a one-man Marvel
Method book instead of scripts?

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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 5:55pm \| IP Logged \| 6

Not quite sure why William Goldman has been referenced for this information, Frank Miller has been advocating this type of approach to storytelling for at least the last twenty years. Pretty successfully too.

Just out of curiousity, anybody else think James Joyce's Ulysses could be classified as decompressed storytelling?

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John W Leys
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 6:42pm \| IP Logged \| 7

Luke Smyth wrote:

Just out of curiousity, anybody else think James Joyce's Ulysses could be classified as decompressed storytelling?

Does anybody think it can be classified as storytelling at all?

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Robert Cosgrove
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Posted: 07 June 2005 at 6:46pm \| IP Logged \| 8

Luke Smyth wrote:

Not quite sure why William Goldman has been referenced for this information . . .

Read Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell. Goldman has a lot to teach about storytelling.

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