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Show Don't Tell and What Fleabag Can Teach Us about Doing Both Well

Carrie Nelson

Apr 10, 20214 min read

Show Don't Tell and What Fleabag Can Teach Us about Doing Both Well

How to show and tell in screenwriting by looking at Fleabag as an example.

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Male Characters I Admire: Steve Rogers/ Captain America

Carrie Nelson

Feb 28, 20214 min read

Male Characters I Admire: Steve Rogers/ Captain America

What Captain America can teach us about positive masculinity and feminism.

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Where's My Inciting Incident? A Personal Essay

Carrie Nelson

Feb 9, 20213 min read

Where's My Inciting Incident? A Personal Essay

A strange thing happens when you spend your life studying how stories work – you start to think life works that way too. Or at least I...

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Carrie Nelson

Apr 26, 20228 min read

A Love Letter to William Herondale

My coworker has been asking me to read Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices trilogy for quite some time. I tried her original...

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What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us about Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part III

Carrie Nelson

Mar 10, 20225 min read

What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us about Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part III

If we think of this fight sequence as a complete story, we've reached the "Dark Night of the Soul," moment. Things have gotten as dark as...

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What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us about Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part II

Carrie Nelson

Feb 18, 20227 min read

What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us about Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part II

Picking up where we left off . . . Mustang and Hawkeye head down the bell tower and find a car so they can meet up with Havoc and Barry....

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: An Ecstatic Review

Carrie Nelson

Jan 30, 20224 min read

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: An Ecstatic Review

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is not a perfect book. It is, however, a very good book, and damn if it didn't make me feel something....

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What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us About Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part 1

Carrie Nelson

Dec 16, 20216 min read

What Fullmetal Alchemist Can Teach Us About Writing Great Fight Scenes: Part 1

When I teach workshops on creative writing, I try to reference stories most of my students will be familiar with. . . Star Wars. . ....

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