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     Monday Motivation: Make enemies, win wars
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted April 23, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Make enemies, win wars

    I’m going to get to my subject today in a roundabout way, if you don’t mind. Sometimes the route you take to your destination is as interesting as the destination. My step-daughter’s about to [...]

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     Monday Motivation: What story’s really all about
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted April 16, 2018

    Monday Motivation: What story’s really all about

    I continue to think of parallels between life and the imaginary worlds of all our fictions. There have to be these equivalences, because otherwise fiction wouldn’t resonate with us; we wouldn’t [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Politicians should learn a thing or two from writers
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted April 9, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Politicians should learn a thing or two from writers

    The skills and insights of creative writing have more applications in the “real” world than we sometimes realise. Politics, for instance, consists largely of opposing narratives. Different [...]

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     Monday Motivation: We’re all no more than muddles. Hooray!
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted March 26, 2018

    Monday Motivation: We’re all no more than muddles. Hooray!

    Paul O’Rourke is a New York dentist, and the eccentric hero of Joshua Ferris’s Man Booker short-listed novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Ferris is a dazzling young writer who announced [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Nobody knows anything
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted March 19, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Nobody knows anything

    “Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re [...]

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     Reminder: our Creative Screenwriting course starts on Thursday 15 March
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Richard Benyon's blog, Screenwriting courses
    Posted March 14, 2018

    Reminder: our Creative Screenwriting course starts on Thursday 15 March

    I just wanted to check in with you to see if you’ve had a chance to think about joining Michele Rowe and me for our Guide to Creative Screenwriting course. If you have a dream of writing for film [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Who can tell the dancer from the dance?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted March 12, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Who can tell the dancer from the dance?

      For the past week or so I’ve feasted on a memoir called Educated by Tara Westover, a Cambridge PhD history graduate who began life as the youngest daughter of a religious and political [...]

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     New screenwriting course – launch special
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted March 6, 2018

    New screenwriting course – launch special

    Our fresh-out-of-the-box Guide to Creative Screenwriting is a ten-week on-line course starting on 15 March. The course runs you through the essential skills required by anyone who wishes to write [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Why is conflict an essential ingredient of drama?
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation, Richard Benyon's blog
    Posted March 5, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Why is conflict an essential ingredient of drama?

    I’ve been wondering why conflict is that absolutely essential element of drama that we’ve always argued it is. We’ve said that conflict creates uncertainty, uncertainty creates suspense – will he [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Sink your hooks into your reader – fast
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted February 25, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Sink your hooks into your reader – fast

    I’ve spoken before about the implicit contract a writer strikes with her reader – a contract that includes such clauses as: I promise to tell a full story, paying proper attention to my [...]

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     Monday Motivation: Imagining yourself into some else’s shoes
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted February 19, 2018

    Monday Motivation: Imagining yourself into some else’s shoes

    In a thoughtful article recently in The New York Times, Dara Horn took a few well-aimed swipes at billionaires who devote significant fractions of their fortunes to research into… immortality. [...]

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     Monday Motivation: ‘Mission Impossible’ and the meme of the ticking clock
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    By Richard Beynon
    In Monday Motivation
    Posted February 12, 2018

    Monday Motivation: ‘Mission Impossible’ and the meme of the ticking clock

    Idly in search of ideas that might amuse and instruct you, I found myself watching one of the interminable Mission Impossible movies, in which the utterly and impossibly intrepid Ethan Hunt [...]

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