Topic Index
Craft concepts covered across the archive.
structure
- Setups & Payoffs 20 episodes
- Stakes 18 episodes
- Narrative POV 14 episodes
- Plotting 12 episodes
- Narrative Velocity 10 episodes
- Sequences 9 episodes
- World Building 9 episodes
- Antagonism 8 episodes
- Character Questions 8 episodes
- Dramatic Questions 7 episodes
- Endings 7 episodes
- Escalation 6 episodes
- Given Circumstances 6 episodes
- Openings 6 episodes
- Plot Questions 6 episodes
- Climax 5 episodes
- Emotional Event 5 episodes
- Midpoint 5 episodes
- Plot Twists 5 episodes
- Act One 4 episodes
- Interweaving Timelines 4 episodes
- Act Two 3 episodes
- Dual Protoganist 3 episodes
- Real Time 3 episodes
- Thematic Question 2 episodes
- TOMBS Cycle 2 episodes
- Act Three 1 episode
- Coincidences 1 episode
- Cold Open 1 episode
- Flashbacks 1 episode
- Flashforwards 1 episode
character
- Character Agency 37 episodes
- Character Motivation 36 episodes
- Character Arcs 19 episodes
- Subtext 17 episodes
- Character Depth 14 episodes
- Writing for Actors 12 episodes
- Character Authenticity 11 episodes
- Tactics 11 episodes
- Audience Complicity 10 episodes
- Character Introductions 9 episodes
- Character Wound 7 episodes
- Choices and Decisions 7 episodes
- POV Characters 7 episodes
- Relationships 7 episodes
- Character Flaw 6 episodes
- Character Function 6 episodes
- Unreliable Narrator 6 episodes
- Ensembles 5 episodes
- Internal Journey 5 episodes
- Moral Ambiguity 5 episodes
- Moral Complexity 5 episodes
- Antiheroes 4 episodes
- Secondary Characters 4 episodes
- Final Choice 3 episodes
- Talismans 3 episodes
scenes
- Dramatic Irony 30 episodes
- Scene Structure 27 episodes
- Status 7 episodes
- Landmark, Hidden, Secret 6 episodes
- Conflict 4 episodes
- Game of the Scene 3 episodes
- Showdowns 3 episodes
- French Scenes 2 episodes
- Intimacy Spectrum 2 episodes
- Oners 2 episodes
- Thematic Sequences 2 episodes
- Characters Alone 1 episode
- Key Scenes 1 episode
- Scene Questions 1 episode
- Scene Transitions 1 episode
words
- Dialogue 13 episodes
- Big Print 9 episodes
- Exposition 8 episodes
- Voiceover 8 episodes
- Unfilmables 6 episodes
- Whitespace 5 episodes
- Fourth Wall 4 episodes
- Formatting 3 episodes
- Direct Address 2 episodes
- Scene Headings 1 episode
audience
- Audience Sympathy 14 episodes
- Tension 10 episodes
- Audience Questions 8 episodes
- Emotional Impact 8 episodes
- Anagnorisis 5 episodes
- Catharsis 3 episodes
tone
- Establishing Tone 12 episodes
- Comedy 3 episodes
- Melodrama 3 episodes
- Tonal Shifts 3 episodes
- Dark Comedy 1 episode
- Physical Comedy 1 episode
- Rewatchability 1 episode
genre
- Genre Conventions 39 episodes
- Visual Language 18 episodes
- Emotional Contract 12 episodes
- Genre Shift 7 episodes
- Contained Thriller 3 episodes
- Genre Translation 3 episodes