Trolls, Hacksaw Ridge, & Brainstorming a Brand New Genre

In this episode we create a brand new category of story by combining Gist Collections from two different Genres. In addition, we take a look at Dreamworks' animated film Trolls and Mel Gibson's first film in ten years, Hacksaw Ridge. One is fun and functionally broken, one is moving and solidly structured. Care to guess which is which?

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Show Notes & Links

• Narrative First Membership Sign up for exclusive access to our Genre Gists Collections and Storyforming Series


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• Narrative First Storyforming Series Video tutorial series showing how to use Dramatica to analyze a film


• Trolls our analysis of this fun film about finding your happy place


• Hacksaw Ridge our analysis of this moving film about staying true to your convictions


• Brainstorming a New Genre for Nanowrimo this week's article on creating a completely original story with a functional and meaningful narrative

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