Tag: Writing advice
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Solid writing advice from this Netflix romcom
On the weekend I watched the romantic comedy Set It Up, a 2018 Netflix film, with my partner and a friend. It was great fun and had some excellent lines – I would recommend the watch! However, it was the unexpected writing advice that caught my attention in particular. The scene starts at about the […]
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Show your villain is powerful without killing your hero: 4 options
Hero vs villain. Good vs evil. Protagonist vs antagonist. Friend vs foe. How can we make our villains big and bad and dangerous without wiping out our main character in the first scene? That’d make for a rather short and unsatisfying story. Where’s the drama, the tension, the stakes?! It hardly gives us time to […]
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