Today on How Story Works, the conversation is about Raiders of the Lost Ark: we burn the movie to the ground and then apply narrative theory to fix it. 

Were you always this tall?

Ugh.

Riley’s back.

As You Were (S6.15).

Today on How Story Works, the conversation is about romantic conflict: why it’s special, why it’s so damn hard to write, and how to write it in your stories.

“You made a wish to a vengeance demon!”
Lani and Noelle stay in one place and talk about bottle episodes in Older and Far Away (S6.14).

Today on How Story Works, the conversation is about goals: knowing what your characters want—and how they plan to get it!

Today on How Story Works, the conversation is about internal and external conflict. We derail into Game of Thrones, The Matrix, and Fleabag in our discussion of layering conflict lasagna, but we don’t feel conflicted about that. 

There is nothing good or clean in you.

Lani and Noelle struggle to talk about a well-written episode they hate watching with Dead Things (S6.13).

It’s a meat process.

Noelle and Lani can’t unsee what they’ve suddenly seen while watching Doublemeat Palace (S6.12).