While we salute Freytag for bringing language to these plot points, we believe Freytag's Pyramid is an outdated and misunderstood plot framework. You can read more about Freytag's Pyramid and whether you should use it in ourguide on the five act structure here. How to Create a Plot Outline...
Does she remember your favorite band, or the story behind that tiny scar on your elbow? If she’s remembering small details about you, chances are she’s interested. This indicates she’s paying attention to you and values your conversations. [Read:Body language of a girl and 37 signs to...
James Joyce changed the face of modern fiction with his stream-of-consciousness writing style. Learn about the psychological roots of the technique and the first authors to use it in novels.
Once the motion capture has been imported, you can use the Story tool to create a “loop-able” clip of animation. There are 2 important things to pay attention to when selecting the part of the mocap to use: the speed the character is moving and how closely the first and last frames ...
So when you allow someone to see you butt naked, do you ever think about how the ideas that you internally have will affect whether you will like them tickling your elbow or kissing your thigh, or shouting out the name of a chosen deity? One must do internal monitoring and evaluation if...
You just want to nudge your friend with your elbow and whisper: “Oh, relax, why are you so strict?” This is roughly the mood with which the developers from ACE Team, known for Zeno Clash, approached their game Rock of Ages. Their project seems to deliberately challenge overly serious ...
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I found a useful comment by Peter Elbow in his excellent one-page explanation of freewriting:“The main thing about freewriting is that it is nonediting. It is an exercise in bringing together the process of producing words and putting them down on the page. Practiced regularly, it undoes ...
Not having had the experience of observing just how quickly the average hearer’s eyes glaze over, they think that the proper response to the innocent question, “So, what’s your book about?” is to reel off the entire plot. And I do mean ENTIRE. By the end of it, an attentive ...
By giving yourself a handful of liberating freewriting rules to follow, you back your mind into a corner where it can’t help but come up with new thoughts. You could call freewriting a form of forced creativity. And in his book “Writing Without Teachers,” Peter Elbow recommends free...