In Jazz-Movie Endings, Some Story Elements Just Keep Bouncing Back Over 90-some years of movies about jazz, many films have spun a familiar lick, sometimes falling back on stock standards when ...

Some Story Elements work better together than others, and romances tend to go over well with many audiences. You may also get requested to make movies with specific Story Elements in exchange for ...

Along the way they encounter some alien creatures and, well, we'll have to see when this hits theaters next June 8th. But in the meantime, Lindelof gives us some juicy details to whet our appetite.

It’s the work of James Harris, who took 176 story-telling tropes — ranging from Etw (evil twin) to Ir (no, not Iridium, intrepid reporter) — and organized them all into a grouped table.

My stories usually involve some combination of spaceships, fairies, talking roses, sarcastic wolves, and vengeful queens. Unfortunately, it’s often difficult for me to keep track of all my story ...

When your story ends, make sure that the next five elements have some similarities and some drastic changes. I prefer to change theme dramatically between each story arc, from love to betrayal, to ...

Stephen King Shifted Plot Elements of New Novel Due to Pandemic. The acclaimed wordsmith says at some point, authors will have no choice but to deal with COVID-19 in their work.