aka Creating Subplots and Tangents That Mean Something. Today we take a look at Hannah Gadby's comedy special Something Special, available on Netflix, and work out just why and how the storytelling works so well, so we can apply it to our own stories.

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aka Killing Off a Great Character. Should you do it? When should you do it? HOW should you do it?

This week I take a look at season four of Only Murders in the Building (Disney+) and Peacemaker (Sky Max), and the agony but beauty in killing off a character who is well loved or vital to some part of your story.

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aka What the Hell Was That Ending? Yes, it's another episode about endings. Endings are so hard! Also, about dislikable characters AND writing fiction from fact.

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aka Can Two Characters Just Be Friends Without Kissing? Can two characters just be friends without resorting to kissing or sleeping together? Let's look at the creative writing and storytelling lessons from Platonic and Mythic Quest, both available on Apple TV.

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aka Writing with 40 Years of Character Development. I am a HUGE Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan. HUGE! Was Mutant Mayhem everything I wanted it to be? Yes and no. But what glorious animation and what glorious writing and storytelling lessons we can learn from it!

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aka Doing Your Characters Justice. Let's talk about that ending of Ozark (available on Netflix and very bingeable!) and the creative writing and storytelling lessons we can learn from it. Massive spoilers in this one, I'm talking life and death. So hit follow/subscribe, make sure you've watched Ozark, then hit play!

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aka How to Stop an Alien Invasion. Welcome to the first episode of Writing Lessons From...! A blogcast where every week I'll be reading aloud a post from the Writing Lessons From... project. This episode was first published on my blog in 2023, and I'm taking a look at what I learned as a creative writer from the film A Quiet Place, and how to write a good alien invasion ending.

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