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tagged by @draftzero for ten songs ive been listening to lately!! here goes

I Give Up by Caroline Polachek

Concrete Angel by Hannah Diamond

vietato calpestare i prati by default genders

My Kind of Woman by Mac DeMarco

Sapokanikan by Joanna Newsom

No Ordinary Love by Sade

Angel On My Shoulder by Sega Bodega

Al Daw by Maya al Khaldi

Ebakesh tareqign by Mahmoud Ahmed

Coxcomb Red by Songs: Ohia

hmm i tag @beeben @nyxeze @mom-friendtm @a-dream-seeking-light hehe

[youhavethewrong]

Tagged by @draftzero for ten songs I've listening to recently, in no particular order~

Cheerleader by Porter Robinson

2. Coincidance by Handsome Dancer

3. RAD RAD by BPM15Q

4. Summer by Good Kid

5. 花隈の歌は可愛いし小春六花はマジでうるさい by Gyari

6. Please Go Away by The Kiffness ft St. Paul (And the Alugalug cat)

7. My friends by Firebomber

8. Take Me To America by Salvatore Ganacci

9. Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes

10. I Wanna Kno by 2 Mello

I tag @m4v3r1cx, @kiwifruiit, and @mediocre-health!

[dingostrash]

Ty for blessing us with your art

Ah thankuu I'm happy to know it's appreciated

[momojiri]

✿ He/him, ty in advance!

i made u supa cool

[morsking]

A solid red orange and pink

[atruebloodwrites]

AuthorLifeMonth Day 12: A Shelved MS. I made a promise a while back to a very special person that I’d write a swim book. The draft is done, but it’s a mess so it’s not so much shelved as on the back burner for now. One day soon though I’ll get back to it! 💜 • • • #authorlifemonth #authorlife #shelvedms #draftzero #writer #writinglife #writingcommunity #bookcommunity #swimbook #booklove #writerscorner #iwriteya #yawriter #yalit #yabooks #yalove #bookgeek #booknerd #bibliophile #bookworm #bookobsessed #writersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BtySfe-nZMR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s7s84dnrfquf

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DZ-92: Insightful recognition in powerful endings

How can endings prompt an audience to reflect on your story?

Stu & Chas set out to explore what makes certain endings powerful, in particular those of LA LA LAND, INCEPTION, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and TURNING RED. The lens they bring to those endings is Aristotle’s moment of “anagnorisis” (don’t worry - we can’t pronounce it either), traditionally when a character moves from ignorance to knowledge (particularly of self).

But in analysing these films, Chas and Stu discover that endings can be particularly powerful when the characters experience insightful recognition in others, or in the world, or - perhaps most powerfully - when the anagnorisis is aimed at the audience. In other words, are there craft tools for your ending to prompt an audience to ask itself the question “What was that all about?”? Turns out, we think there are.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND

Audio quotations used for educational purposes only. Timestamps indicated below. Chapter markers included in the mp3.

Thanks to Chris Walker for editing this episode.

CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:48 - Insightful recognition in endings

00:03:39 - What the hell is “anagnorisis”?

00:12:04 - LA LA LAND

00:30:45 - INCEPTION

00:35:14 - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

01:00:04 - TURNING RED

01:18:18 - Wrap up & Key Learnings

01:24:26 - Thanks patreons!

LINKS

HULK PRESENTS THE MYTH OF THE THREE ACT STRUCTURE

Lindsay Doran on the psychology of story-telling

RELATED EPISODES

DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette

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In which I make my second guest appearance on the DraftZero podcast!

We examine three quite different films - LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE BLING RING, and THE BEGUILED - and break down the different techniques Coppola uses when #writing her #scripts.

https://draft-zero.com/2021/dz-76/

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@michameinmicha did this username song thing and i wanna do it SO

U - urban twilight by grimes

R - riot rhythm by sleigh bells

B - bmbmbm by black midi

X - xenomorphgirl by arca

N - nothing's free by angel olsen

T - two-headed boy pt 2 by neutral milk hotel

W - wild is the wind by nina simone

I - i think i can by animal collective

L - lionsong by björk

I - i do sing for you by majical cloudz

G - god turn me into a flower by weyes blood

H - house on the hill by beach house

T - take me apart by kelela

nominating errrm @nicky999doors @nyxeze @draftzero @mom-friendtm @sidereon-spaceace @beeben @ros3chu @rottboy and anyone who wants to

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REPOST from another blog I own. This was shortly discussed on the Screenwriting Podcast Draft Zero. You can find that episode here: DRAFT ZERO | DZ-04: Catharsis and the Post-Coital Cigarette

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three books I'd take to a deserted island, I need to read more 😞 but these r probably my favorite books ever so

1. Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

3. Room by Emma Donoghue

hmmm I nominate @princeghost @draftzero @lilbittymonster hehehe

ooh they‘re playing ‚desert island‘ on the office, so let‘s do this! :D

3 books you‘d take on a desert island 📖

@crestfallercanyon @un-ah @graeae @mylittleangelxxx @go-catch-a-chickn @persnickett @thominho-incorrectquotes @voidstilesplease

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Sour: Prologue

Gordon Fleck was an ordinary man, until he did something decidedly not ordinary. After that, he was still an ordinary man, albeit one who had done something not ordinary and would consequently spend seven years in prison. This is not his story, but it is important to know his part in it.

On the morning of Thursday the twelfth of June, Gordon Fleck woke up in his ordinary house and skipped breakfast as he always did, in order to beat the traffic to work, which he never did. Mainly because every other ordinary person had the same idea. By all leaving half an hour early in order to avoid each-other they inevitable met each-other at the same spot, half an hour earlier than they otherwise would have. He arrived at his place of work - a medium sized office building not far from the city, but not close to it either - at the same time as ever, eight twenty-five. He said hello to the same faces he’d said hello to five days a week for the last eighteen years, and ignored the others, just as he’d done for the last eighteen years. He sat at the same desk, drank the same bitter instant coffee from the same mug. Copied and updated and the same spreadsheets he copied and updated every week. Gordon was, as far as he knew, competent at his job. He’d never been told otherwise. Then again, he was never surprised when he was overlooked for a promotion. He was always overlooked for promotion. Gordon’s title had the word Senior in it, and it hadn’t always, but he still did the same things he’d always done. As far as he knew, Senior meant he’d been there for five years or more. Or maybe ten. He didn’t remember, and didn’t care. He’d never asked for it to be changed, and as we’ve already established, he still did the same things as ever. On Thursday the twelfth of June, he planned to work eight hours and then go home, just as he always planned to, but stayed nine in order to finish his spreadsheet, just as he always did. Which meant, by the time he eased his car onto the freeway, it was full of the same other ordinary people who’d caused the slow and heavy traffic in the morning, making their ordinary ways back home after spending an hour more at their jobs than they’d intended to. So a fifteen minute trip would take fifty. It always did. At the halfway point of his journey, marked by the grubby budget service station on the intersection of the freeway and Boatowners Road, Gordon checked his fuel gauge, and found it satisfactory - a little over half a tank. Now his only decision was - would he go straight home to his nearly empty house and check his nearly empty refrigerator for any remaining edible items before retiring to the TV room where he would have one too many beers before bed? Or would he stop at the grocery store and buy a small variety of ingredients to mix into the same boring meal and four serves of leftovers he always made, before retiring to the TV room where he would have one too many beers before bed? He thought about it for a moment, then decided. He would do the same thing he’d done every Thursday night for the last eighteen years. Stop for the groceries and beer. And for the same reason - by Thursday he could never be certain about his remaining stock of beer; was it two cans, or three? Three cans was one too many, and he decided he needed one too many, after his long day of work. He always did. Gordon found an empty park rather too far from the supermarket. He made sure to put the parking brake on, because he’d heard once that it was legally required even if the park was on flat ground, and he had no reason to doubt that. As he walked towards the brightly lit store he noticed the discarded shopping trolleys, clustered around bench seats and lamp posts like cattle around a feed trough. Gordon would never leave a trolley like that. He prided himself on always returning them to the store, or to the bays that had been provided throughout the car park. It seemed like the decent thing to do. The supermarket was over capacity, as it always was at six o’clock on Thursday. Full of pink wet vacant eyes peering at labels and price tags as though doing so would impart some sort of meaning to lives that would inevitably see them doing the same thing every week until the sudden end. Full of kids hyped up on junk food or reined in with ADHD mess but either way totally undisciplined by whichever pair of staring eyes they belonged to. Full of old people and poor people. Thursday was pension day. And when Gordon had finally ‘excuse me’d and negotiated his path falteringly through the aisles which held most of the necessary ingredients he needed to make his tasteless but sustaining meal of the week, he took his place at the back of the long queue for the two remaining checkouts. The others had been replaced by a do-it-yourself system that relied on honesty and the watchful eyes of a sole assistant-cum-security guard, and probably a hidden camera or two. Automatic Checkouts they were called, though there was nothing automatic about them. You just had to scan and pack your own shopping. Gordon found them annoying to use, and often faulty. And besides, he had no idea whether you were supposed to go through with a trolley full, or even if it were possible. He supposed the trick would be to use two trolleys, and scan items out of one before placing them in the other. So he waited in line. There was a curious sense of achievement as he got closer to the front of the line, and the back of the line snaked further into the store than it had been when he joined it. Gordon knew this was not actually an achievement on his part, nor did it serve anyone any better to have such long lines, not the store, or the customers, or the staff on the checkouts. The girl serving him was efficient, and more importantly didn’t bother getting chatty. Her name tag said Hi I’m Megan. Gordon disliked chatting for its own sake, particularly to people he didn’t know. It seemed better to just stick with Hello and Goodbye. Polite but not put on. There was a small pause between punching his pin into the card machine and it telling him the transaction was approved. There was always a pause, just long enough to make him wonder if today would be the day he was declined, even though he knew he had almost nine thousand in savings in the account. But it was approved of course, as it always was. “There you go Sir, have a nice evening,” said the girl called Megan as she handed Gordon his receipt. “Thanks. Can I have an extra bag?” He asked her. “Actually, make that two.” She shrugged and peeled two more thin green bags from the hangers on her side of the counter and gave them to him. Gordon placed one bag inside the other and shook them to open them out as Megan impatiently waited for him to move on. Then quick as you like, he reached across the checkout counter, wrapped the bags around her head, and held them there, despite the faces of the onlookers and despite her fingers desperately clawing at his arms and her neck. He held them there until she stopped fighting and slumped forward onto the vegetable scales.

Nobody tried to stop him.

That girl was my mother.

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DZ-75: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling

How can you do powerful storytelling... without dialogue?

Stu and Chas are joined by filmmaker, podcaster and writer Matthew Brown to deep dive into FURY ROAD and its astounding visual storytelling, both on the page and on screen. We talk about setups and payoffs, given circumstances, image systems, environmental storytelling, and how the relationship between Furiosa and Max is built over the course of the story with very little dialogue (besides Tom Hardy’s grunts and the odd bellow of “MEDIOCRE!”).

You can also watch the complete live stream on YouTube or just the breakdown of the Furiosa/Max fight (which isn’t in the podcast) here.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND

Audio quotations used for educational purposes only. Timestamps indicated below. Chapter markers included in the mp3.

RUNNING ORDER

00:00:00 Intro: Fury Road & Visual Storytelling

00:01:07 Why Fury Road?

00:06:17 World Building & Given Circumstances

00:23:19 World Building & Plot Points

00:30:50 Setups & Payoffs

00:35:03 Who is the Protagonist?

00:35:08 Max & Furiosa's Arc

01:00:44 Stray Observations

01:05:28 Wrap Up

EPISODE LINKS

FOLLOW: Matt Brown - @tederick on twitter, or buy his book at tederick.com/furyroad

READ: Cinephillia and Beyond - In Search of Our Better Selves: The Rebirth, Redemption and Road Warriors of George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

WATCH: Mad Max: Fury Road

READ: The Art of Mad Max Max Fury Road

RELATED EPISODES

DZ-33: Protagonist vs Hero – Dawn of Character Function

DZ LiVE Ep3 - Watchmen - The Comic, The Movie & The Show

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@nicky999doors tagged me to post my lock screen, last song listened to, last picture taken, last picture saved

hee hee hee i tag erm @draftzero @beeben @life-in--the--vivid-dream @cosmicangelz @nyxeze @mom-friendtm sorry if i forgot any other beloved moots

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was tagged by @a-dream-seeking-light to post my lock screen + the last song I listened to hehehe

hmm I tag @lilbittymonster @princeghost @draftzero @ownerofidaho and anyone who else who sees it n wants to play hehehehe

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DZ-74: Midsommar & Folk Horror

What can we learn from folk horror?

Draft Zero return with their next YouTube livestream! Stu and Chas are joined by previous guest (and successful screenwriter) C.S. McMullen for a deep dive into MIDSOMMAR! We analyse the film through the lens of Folk Horror, but tackle broader topics such as horror vs dread, rising tension, transgressions, unfilmables, and portraying toxic relationships.

You can also watch the recorded live stream on YouTube.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND

Audio quotations used for educational purposes only. Timestamps indicated below. Chapter markers included in the mp3.

RUNNING ORDER

00:00:00 Intro: Misommar & Folk Horror

00:00:15 Why Midsommar?

00:03:54 What makes horror "folk"?

00:18:20 The First Ritual

00:32:17 Transgressions

01:07:32 Grief & The Ending

01:23:18 The May Queen

01:40:04 Wrap Up & An Exercise

EPISODE LINKS

Watch: Midsommar

Watch: The Wicker Man

RELATED EPISODES

Listen: DZ-60: Unfilmables 1 - Engaging imagination

Listen: DZ-61: Unfilmables 2 – Moments of Awe

Listen: DZ-62: Unfilmables 3 - As Ifs & Emotional context

Many thanks to all our patrons but particularly to Stuart, Jack, Chris, Khrob, and Sandra. They’re good humans.

Please considering rating or subscribing to us on Apple Podcasts or sharing us on the Social Medias! We like finding new listeners. We are @stuwillis and @chasffisher on twitter. And you can find @draft_zero on Instagram and Twitter.

LINKS @ http://linktr.ee/draftzero

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Check out this new episode of Draft Zero