Agent 99 - Online story telling

Following on from a longer piece I wrote here on storytelling versus plotting (http://www.agoodstorywelltold.com/content/storytelling-versus-plotting) it seemed like a good idea to take some time to talk about storytelling and space.

Full disclosure: This is glossed from 'Psychology for Screenwriters' by William Indick (see his run of books on Amazon.co.uk) and his chapter is in itself a reworking of The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock (again on Amazon - looks like she does some interesting books on the Father/Daughter relationship too.

So with that out of the way lets take a quick look...

Being so into horror lately I have taken the time to write up a decent analysis and notes on Eli Roths film ‘Hostel’, a recentish horror hit of the ‘torture horror’ sub-genre.

I have just written up a longish aricle called Notes on writing the Horror screenplay which is a summation of recent reading and seminars around town. I have been thinking baout Horror quite a lot lately as I write my own - no surprises there I guess.

For some strange reason I thought it would be a good idea to start a small book on story - a detailed look at some aspects of story, most notably ideas around plot and transforming plot to story through fable and genre. This will be an 'eBook' for free download.

I guess it will take a while to finish it. Lets count the months together. But as I finish the chapters I will post them up here and add to articles and so on.

In a rare moment we caught an actual new release and went to see 'Knocked up'.

We found it amusing, wry, affectionate. We expected to find it really funny. And since this is being sold as 'the perfect comedy' then that means our expectations were not met at all. As Steph said it fell a long way short of 'Meet the Parents' the best adult comedy about familys over th last few years. Nor did it have the gut-twisting observational deftness of Little Miss Sunshine.

So why did it not pack the punch it was meant to?

I finally caught up with Notes from a Scandal in movie form after finishing the book quite a while ago. The book is superior, and it's worth quickly going back and looking at the intriguing 'narrator position' of the book, which is the key to figuring out why this is case of 'book over film'.