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Peter Gutierrez: "If you didn’t catch Laura Fleming at last year’s SLJ Leadership Summit, or haven’t read her writings on transmedia at places such as Edutopia, HuffPo, or GETideas.Org, then don’t worry…
…because you can count on me to keep sharing her inspiring and insightful work."
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From Casablanca to The Killing – the elements of a great script are essentially the same. John Yorke – reveals how and why the best screenwriting works
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
How to take basic story structure and turn it into great screenwriting .... 
Alexis Niki's curator insight,
March 16, 5:23 PM
The art and the discipline of screenwriting. A long read but worth it. Delete the scoop?
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Mike Springer: "Before he was a big game hunter, before he was a deep-sea fisherman, Ernest Hemingway was a craftsman who would rise very early in the morning and write."
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This one's for writers everywhere ... 
Luca Brigada's curator insight,
March 12, 6:49 AM
I began this travel of storytelling with Hemingway never wrote a treatise on the art of writing fiction. He did, however, leave behind a great many passages in letters, articles and books with opinions and advice on writing. First rule: To get started, write one true sentence. Delete the scoop?
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Saladin Ahmed: "What attracts people to fantasy? Is it the orcs and the elves, or the rich worlds they inhabit?"
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How much detail is too much detail when building fantasy story worlds? Delete the scoop?
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Chuck Wendig: "With NaNoWriMo about to storm surge the writer (and wannabe-writer) community, this seems a good time to both tickle your pink parts and jam my boot up your boothole in terms of getting your penmonkey asses motivated. So, here goes — 25 motivational thoughts for writers, starting in 3… 2… 1…" Delete the scoop?
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Leila Johnston: "Transmedia can be a controversial word, but it was embraced by the Lab, which explored the value of ‘immersive entertainment’ – stories told across more than one medium, playing with the boundaries of the real world, and often requiring participation from the audience" Via Simon Staffans Delete the scoop?
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Richard Brody: "The fulsome orthodoxy of Pixar’s twenty-two storytelling rules goes far beyond a single company’s flavor spectrum to a crisis that is endemic to the modern cinema" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
An interesting and rather unexpected take on Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling. 
Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight,
March 15, 3:29 AM
I thought it was a bit like, "Whatever Works" and then it seems to be almost science. Some of the rules are psychological exercises that don’t relate to composition but to a writer’s self-knowledge. Delete the scoop?
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![The Dangers of World-Building [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/FWLkreKY6wsJu0SJHtPY8Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Lucas J.W. Johnson: "An article today on NPR about fantasy world-building suggests that what was once for the most outcast of nerds is (along with general geekdom) gaining more widespread acceptance [...]"
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Lucas Johnson provides a transmedia context to yesterday's scoop: At Home In Fantasy's Nerd-Built Worlds. Delete the scoop?
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Via Jess McCulloch
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Very cool! Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey illustrated with Lego figures. (Starts fully at slide 6.) 
Deanya Lattimore's curator insight,
January 7, 9:32 AM
"What's the story?" A good thinking starter for how "story" works in the world. 
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
January 7, 8:49 PM
Strange to tell Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces with Lego characters but it flies by faster chan Campbell.
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
January 7, 8:55 PM
Could this 65 slide deck have saved me plowing through Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thosand Faces? Not really, but its fun and flies by providing ADD insight into the basis of all stories. Delete the scoop?
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Geoff Livingston: "Stories told across multi-platform media environments — or transmedia stories as they are commonly called on the edge — require more complex writing. A story unfolds across diverse media with readers/viewers opting in to each layer." Delete the scoop?
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