What Would a Post-pandemic Gilmore Girls Look Like? — The cultural zeitgeist of any era helps shape and mold the art that comes out during that time. It’s inevitable. Two Big Shifts in Media From the 80s to the 2020s, we’ve seen two major shifts in media. The first is in tone and subject matter, and the second is structure. Tone and Subject Matter This one is created…

If you missed either Part I or II, you can catch them here: A Balanced Cast of Characters Is an Awesome Cast: Part I How Classic Character Types Can Help Your Storymedium.com A Balanced Cast Is an Awesome Cast: Part II 4 More Classic Character Types to Round out Your Castmedium.com Now for Part III! First off, let’s look at the full character type list again to refresh our memories and so we can refer to it again:

4 More Classic Character Types to Round out Your Cast — If you haven’t read last week’s post with the intro and the first half of the cast list, be sure to do that. A Balanced Cast of Characters Is an Awesome Cast: Part I How Classic Character Types Can Help Your Storymedium.com Before we dive in, a quick overview/reminder of the common 8 character types, according to, well, me: The Everyman/Everywoman

How Classic Character Types Can Help Your Story — This isn’t exactly a newsflash: Gilmore Girls has an amazing cast of characters. I can guarantee you that that didn’t happen accidentally, and it didn’t happen by Amy and Daniel sitting in a room coming up with the wackiest collection of characters they could envision. Creating a balanced cast is far more scientific than that. Considering that I’m mostly a…

Or: Acting Advice That’s Also Writing Advice from Scott Patterson/Luke — Question: Without using Dr. Google, do you know what Luke Danes is reacting to in this shot? If not, you’re not alone. Look at him. He’s not red-faced. He’s not ranting. He’s not even speaking. He’s arguably just looking at something with a slightly open mouth but an expression that says little. Luke Danes and His Many Emotions

5 Ways to Make Each Unique — One of the best assignments my high school creative writing teacher gave the class was to write a sitcom-length screenplay. With teacher approval, a friend and I teamed up for the assignment and wrote a screenplay twice as long. …

Writing the Slow-Burn Payoff — Arguably one of the best moments in Gilmore Girls history is one of the final moments of the Season 4 finale, “Recipes and Raincoats” (S4E22) when Luke and Lorelai finally — finally! — kiss. It’s a scene worth watching and rewatching (both for the AWWWW! …

There’s a Good Reason. They’re Not Stupid. — Several years ago, a writer friend expressed frustration that people in Utah always spelled her last name wrong. She lives in California, where, I believe, her husband is from. She interacted with Utahns a lot because the state has a weirdly large writing community considering its population, and that means…

Misdirection: Make Your Readers So Curious They Have to Keep Reading — Stars Hollow has tension from the moment Luke’s nephew Jess arrives. He’s a city kid thrown into a small town with nothing to do, no one he knows, and plenty of trouble to make. At least, that’s largely how the townsfolk see him, and he seeing as he doesn’t particularly…