Better Story Structure Through Musicals and Kung Fu Movies
Trust me, it'll make sense...
Kung fu movies and musicals are essentially the same thing. Once you understand this, you’ll better understand how to properly structure your stories and connect your characters more deeply with your audience.
Trust me: The more we dig, the more sense it’s going to make.
Whether you’re watching The Sound of Music or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: a group of people come together, and as they interact, their emotions grow—until they boil over.
At which point, there is singing or there is fighting…
You can read the rest of this piece here; I wrote it for Writer’s Digest magazine, and while the issue dropped earlier this year, the link is now available so you can read it online.
It was a fun piece to write, and builds on one of the projects I’m chipping away at, slowly but surely: a book on writing craft, but comprised of essays, sort of like this.
This would be one of them, though I’d probably expand it to talk a little about my childhood love for kung fu movies, and then coming around to musicals later in life.
I’d love to know what subjects you’d like to see covered in a craft book—feel free to share in the comments.
Don’t forget, the Dark Space release party will be on Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. at PT Knitwear in NYC. You can RSVP here. Come hang out with me and
!Also don’t forget: I’m still open to editorial clients. If you’re working on a book that needs some help to make it submission-ready, I got you. You can find more information about that here.
I had a really fun discussion about Assassins Anonymous on Out with Dan, hosted by Dan White. You can see that here, or get the audio-only version here.
This has nothing to do with me or with writing but the new season of The Great British Bake Off will hit Netflix on Sept. 27 and I am deeply excited about this. It’s like someone figured out how to dole out Xanax through a television. Highly recommended as a balm for the hellscape that is our reality.