Must-Watch Video Interview with the Two Guys Who Wrote Avengers: Infinity War*
(*and other Avengers movies that precede it)
Every story development principle, and every dimension of the structural paradigm we talk about here on Storyfix–as it applies to novelists–is echoed, verified and presented within a real world context from the biggest stage of screenwriting there is.
These guys struggle with the same things we do.
Except they aren’t handicapped within that struggle by a lack of awareness of what goes where (structure) and the cause-and-effect of scenes and reader/viewer engagement (the various criteria that apply). In other words they aren’t struggling with the paradoxical notion of “not knowing what they don’t know” (the bane of newer writers) because it is the keen awareness of what they need to know to arrive at a story that works that serves them so well.
If anything, this is the modeling they provide us here. Everything they did on the journey of story development for the largest grossing film in history was driven by criteria. The same criteria that is available to us as novelists.
Running time is 19:30. All of it fascinating, illuminating and entertaining. Enjoy!
(With thanks to Todd Hudson and Kerry Boytzun)
If you can’t see the video within an email version of this post, go HERE to view it on the Storyfix website.
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If you want to know more about those criteria, my new book is less than a month out from the pub date, and is available for pre-order now (just click on the book cover image to the right of this column).
Here’s what my editor at Writers Digest Books–who has seen dozens of writing books come and go across her desk–says about this project, which owes much to her keen ear and sharp editorial eye:
“The minute I saw the Great Stories Don’t Write Themselves proposal in my inbox, I knew it needed to be part of the WD lineup. I grabbed a highlighter and started taking notes for my own writing then and there! While I always find it interesting to hear about a successful author’s writing process, those answers never seemed useful for getting to the heart of the matter, the real question being asked: What makes a story worth writing and reading? But that’s exactly what this book does. Read it. Internalize it. Your future writer-self will thank you.”
Amy Jones
Managing Content Editor
Writer’s Digest
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