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A Story

Arnie Fenner

It's that time of year when people look back and reflect on everything that's happened in the previous 12 months. But ... you want to know something? I really don't wanna. Because for any number of reasons I could come up with—and won't—my opinion is that 2025 was a helluva stinker and thinking about it will just piss me off. If you had a good year, great, I'm glad for you: feel free to reflect…

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Bela

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BUILDING WORLDS

Greg Ruth

August 1, 2025 - [caption id="attachment_81366" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Unused spread from THE MONKEY by Osgood Perkins/NEON[/caption] World Building is one of the most underrated essentials of storytelling, and if you do it right,  one of the most invisible. In my personal opinion, the holy trinity of storytelling World Building and Character Development are top tier with Plot as the tiny lagging puppy running keep up. Character and World Building are what draws you in to a story, and want to revisit it again later. When a story is working, Plot is merely the tick-tock of events in the service of those two. But, we've been in a two-decades long cycle of high concept/plot narratives that have crowded out the other two, leading us a seemingly endless raft of spectacular, and saccharine stories that fill seats in movie theaters for…

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