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Can AI ‘Save the Cat’? Exploring Predictability in Scriptwriting
June 26, 2025Can AI write formulaic screenplays as well as humans? There are many formulaic structures around: Save the Cat, the Three Act structure, and the heroic ...
Practical Tips for Structuring Stories
June 3, 2023I have found the Writing Excuses podcast (and archives) very useful to learn about the art of story writing. One I found particularly useful was ...
Writing Great Dialogue
May 4, 2023In a movie (or in my case, an animated cartoon), dialogue can make or break a scene. For animation, the visual aspects may take a ...
Entity Extraction for Screenplays with ChatGPT
March 24, 20236:15 PM I am exploring assembling scenes for computer animation from text based on AI. This is partly because I would like to speed up ...
Sympathetic vs Engaging Characters
March 14, 2023Are sympathetic characters the same or different to engaging characters? This was a topic on an old Writing Excuses podcast (episode 9.10). The answer is ...
Conflict vs Tension in Storytelling
February 8, 2023To make stories more interesting, do you need conflict or do you need tension? Can you create tension without conflict? I was just listening to ...
How to Write an Anime Script (2022 Q4 update)
November 15, 2022I have been working on creating my own animated cartoon using 3D computer animation. This is a personal hobby project, so I have been taking ...
MICE Outlining
August 13, 2022Another masterclass series from the Writing Excuses podcast that I found interesting on script writing as M.I.C.E. This stands for Milieu (a place or location) ...
Emotional Impact in Scriptwriting
July 3, 2022This is my summary of a podcast I found on YouTube (its available on multiple platforms) from "Bulletproof Screenwriting", an interview with Karl Iglesias (author, ...
Great advice for writing a good story, by some old guy
March 20, 2021There are probably some great books on how to write good drama scripts, but I came across a reference to ‘The Poetics’ written by Aristotle ...
Plot and Story Structure
November 6, 2020If you search online for how to structure Manga, Anime, a Webtoon comic, or more you will find various discussions on what terminology to use ...