This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #012. While Disney still has several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) planned for the next few years, it’s hard to imagine them ever building up to an event of such epic scale as Avengers: Endgame. The twenty-three films that make up the MCU, … More Marvel End Battles, Part Two
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #011. There is no film series more popular than the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Starting with Iron Man in 2008, both the solo and team outings of the various Avengers have since exploded in popularity. After eleven years, Marvel has amassed a collection of successful, … More Marvel End Battles, Part One
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #010. A more and more common creative choice for story-tellers in our modern age is the practice of subverting expectations. What that means is that the audience goes into your story expecting one thing, and what you give them is something different. The problem with … More The Positives of Subverting Expectations
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #009. Few characters embody all the ideals that we as a culture hold dear the way Steve Rogers, better known by his crime-fighting alias Captain America, does. Over the course of his eleven appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), he has stood for truth, … More Crafting Compelling Character Arcs—Captain America
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #008. In Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark utters the now-iconic words that first opened the door eleven years earlier to the flood of record-breaking content that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). What were they? “I am Iron Man.” If you’ve seen the movie, you know … More Crafting Compelling Character Arcs—Iron Man
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #007. In Avengers: Endgame, Scarlett Johansson’s character, Black Widow, chose to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save the universe. Her selflessness won the day, providing the rest of the team with the tool they needed to restore billions of people back to life. … More Crafting Compelling Character Arcs—Black Widow
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #006. There are very few writing choices as risky as creating a novel with an ensemble cast. So much could go wrong, especially for the beginning writer. Yet, if done right, the rewards are more than equal to the challenge. The question is, though, what … More Differentiating An Ensemble Cast
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #005. There’s a concept that is becoming more and more commonplace in entertainment, in a world where a trailer can’t drop, an episode can’t air, and a movie sequel can’t be announced without thousands of enthralled fans dissecting every nanosecond of material they’ve been offered, … More Subverting Expectations
This article was originally published in The Writer’s Everything, Issue #002. There is a sort of stigma in the writing community, especially in certain circles, when it comes to prologues. We can postulate that the premise of this pre-plot problem is, put simply, that prologues are a bait-and-switch.
