by Josiah DeGraaf | Jan 6, 2016 | Video
The middle of your novel should be the point where everything gets shaken up… And in this video series, that of course is going to include the camera view. Part One: The Characteristic Moment Part Two: The Inciting Event Part Three: The Pushpoint Part Four:...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Dec 2, 2015 | Video
The duo comes back as they transition from discussion the first act of your story’s plot to the second act. Watch Josiah struggle to explain things without his script and Daniel actually enjoy shooting the video for once! Part One: The Characteristic Moment...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Nov 5, 2015 | Book Recommendations, Writing
This book is pretty much a goldmine for any writer who wants to delve more into story structure. Weiland’s goal in this book is two-fold: to show how a basic story structure underlies pretty much every good work of fiction, and then to teach the would-be writer how...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Nov 2, 2015 | Video
So many potential expectations for this video. But in order to answer all of them, yes, the video will still be meta, yes, Daniel and Josiah will still be fighting over the use of scripts, yes, Daniel will still be going off and doing his own thing, and yes, the...
by Josiah DeGraaf | Oct 26, 2015 | Book Recommendations, Fiction
The book begins like a stereotypical fantasy novel: with a character who is prophesied to find the “chosen one” figure of this universe. Only problem is, the prophesied finder of the chosen one is a drunkard and when all the other signs of the prophesy line up, he is...
