Archive for the ‘Inciting Incidents’ Category

Abusing the Characters

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I picked up a book on writing short stories a couple of years ago. On occasion, I go back to that book and read bits and pieces of it. My intent is not to write short fiction, but rather to write long fiction. My problem, whenever I start a short ...

MacGuffin McGuffin

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

One of my favorite, all time, movies is Ronin. This movies stars Robert De Niro who plays a man named Sam. Sam is hired by an Irish faction to get a case from a Russian Cartel. There is some ambiguity, throughout the movie (though not at the end) whether or ...