I’m back with another plot re-imagining—sorta. This week I’ll be analyzing teen rom-com Wild Child (2007). It stars Emma Roberts as the spoiled prima donna, Poppy Moore, who gets sent away to an all-girls English boarding school to straighten up her act. I will admit, these kinds of films are my guilty pleasure. Wild Child …
Disney’s Upside-Down Magic (2020) is a children’s fantasy based on a book series of the same title. It stars Izabela Rose as Nory, a spunky shapeshifting teen who can’t seem to get her powers right. Nory and her best friend Reina (Seina Agudong) get accepted to the prestigious Sage Academy, a magic school. During their placement …
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Hi fellow writer. Shantal here. I’ve been on a temporary hiatus that is not exactly one that I planned for. Ever since the reality of the pandemic hit (and my family and I’s stressful experience with it), I’ve found myself needing time and space to process my thoughts and emotions, which included taking a break …
Being a writer often feels like you’re looking for an instructional manual that never came with the package. We see completed works of fiction (or non-fiction) everywhere and they are the things we can compare our works to. All we know is that we want to write like “that”, but don’t exactly know how. Most …
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With the current public health crisis, this has been a difficult time for many people. With the quarantine and social distancing protocols being set in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19, this can make us feel confused, scared, lonely and powerless. For writers, this can disrupt our creative process. These are 5 Things Writers …
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Having an Idealized Version of Who You Want to Be as a Writer vs. Who You Really Are as a Writer For a long time now, I have been trying to fit myself into an idealized version of the writer I “want” to be, which is ironic because my personality usually rejects conventions. I thought …
This is not a “how to overcome some kind of problem” article . This is a post where I talk about what it’s like to be in a problem and not know how to fix it. I’m currently writing a romance fanfiction to practice storytelling and to practice completing a project. The fanfiction is meant to be short, and …
After watching YouTuber and novelist Rachael Stephens’s Plot With Me Series, where she shows us the plot embryo in action by fixing movie plots, I’ve been inspired to try my hand at repairing movie plots. For me, it’s a fun way to practice plotting and editing. I’ve been practicing for a while, and now, I …
I love characters. Characters bring me comfort. They make me feel less alone in this world and allow me to express empathy. Many of my favorite characters come from television shows. Television shows are a great place to learn about character. They are longer than movies, meaning that a story unfolds at a slower pace, …
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Today’s Sunday, and while I usually post about movies, tv shows or books on this day, I want to talk about perfectionism, depression and writing as it’s the reason why I haven’t been able to come up with content for my blog this week. It didn’t occur to me until recently that perfectionism is a …
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