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A hero is only as great as the villains that oppose them. A great villain frames your hero, bringing life to your conflicts and depth to your themes. Stories like […]

A hero is only as great as the villains that oppose them. A great villain frames your hero, bringing life to your conflicts and depth to your themes. Stories like The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and Die Hard all have something to teach us about how to build a compelling villain. Today, we deconstruct villains […]

We want to take a moment to talk about our writer’s journey. It’s been a long seven years with many trials and individual trajectories. That said, this isn’t a review […]

We want to take a moment to talk about our writer’s journey. It’s been a long seven years with many trials and individual trajectories. That said, this isn’t a review of our entire history. Instead, we want to talk about more recent lessons we’ve learned or relearned. We Talk About: Flow and confidence. The correlation […]

Now that we’re pulling back on author events with the Smarter Artist, we’re able to use our time on what we refer to as a “No ROI event.” These are […]

Now that we’re pulling back on author events with the Smarter Artist, we’re able to use our time on what we refer to as a “No ROI event.” These are private events with small groups. The purpose is to learn something together rather than teaching. Our last event was a movie-watching marathon. We picked films […]

It’s the dream of many authors to see their work translated into a movie or TV. But there are several considerations an author must make when deciding whether their work […]

It’s the dream of many authors to see their work translated into a movie or TV. But there are several considerations an author must make when deciding whether their work is ready for adaptation. We’ve been at the adaptation process for several of our stories, and, today, we share what we’ve learned and what to […]

We love film and Television. We’re lucky to be creators in an era when the visual medium has never been more instructive on storytelling via modern TV, and our ability […]

We love film and Television. We’re lucky to be creators in an era when the visual medium has never been more instructive on storytelling via modern TV, and our ability to analyze film through the decades. Today, we wanted to talk about the stories we have and are currently appreciating from the big, small, and […]