The Comic Muse » Daniel McInerny https://thecomicmuse.com Revels in the Craft of Storytelling Sun, 08 Dec 2013 01:30:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 https://thecomicmuse.com/category/the-comic-muse-podcast/feed/ The Comic Muse Podcast brings you into the writer's workshop for fun, informative discussions on how the art of the storypreneur can help your business tell its story. Produced and hosted by Daniel McInerny, CEO of The Comic Muse and an author of fiction for both adults and children. Daniel McInerny clean Daniel McInerny [email protected] [email protected] (Daniel McInerny) © Daniel McInerny Productions, LLC Revels in the Craft of Storytelling self-publishing, creative writing, how to write fiction, writing fiction, writing a novel, writing short stories, screenwriting, book marketing, on writing, publishing, literature, drama The Comic Muse » Daniel McInerny https://thecomicmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/comicmuse_logo_podcast.png https://thecomicmuse.com TV-14 https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/1675/ https://thecomicmuse.com/uncategorized/1675/#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:53:01 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1675 “There is so much Catholic literary talent—creative, critical, and scholarly—but most of it seems scattered and isolated. It lacks a vital sense of cultural community—specifically, a conviction that together these individuals can achieve meaningful change in the world. If Catholic literati can recapture a sense of shared mission, the results would enlarge and transform literary […]

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Syd Field, Screenwriting, and Three-Act Structure https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/syd-field-screenwriting-and-three-act-structure/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/syd-field-screenwriting-and-three-act-structure/#comments Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:09:20 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1651 Only the immature artist scoffs at the demands of form. “Free verse,” quipped Robert Frost, is like “playing tennis without a net.” There is a reason why the films of Terence Malick, as brilliantly associative as they are, tax our patience. Syd Field died on the 17th of this month. He was, along with Robert […]

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True Confessions of a Self-Publishing Author https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/true-confessions-of-a-self-publishing-author/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/true-confessions-of-a-self-publishing-author/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:05:58 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1640 And here’s Part 2 of my talk to the Annapolis Chapter of the Maryland Writer’s Association, in which I get into more of the practical details of self-publishing and marketing one’s books.

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Writing High Comedy in an Age of Irony https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/writing-high-comedy-in-an-age-of-irony/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/writing-high-comedy-in-an-age-of-irony/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:00:56 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1634 This is Part 1 of a talk I gave last week (November 20, 2013), to the Annapolis Chapter of the Maryland Writer’s Association. What a delightful evening I had with this group!

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Go Make a Movie https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/go-make-a-movie/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/go-make-a-movie/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:14:25 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1631 An iPhone and a computer with an editing program, preferably on a Mac. That’s all you really need to make a movie. Nowadays it truly couldn’t be simpler to shoot and edit something that looks pretty darn decent. You don’t need an expensive crew. You just need an idea and some basic equipment. (Though I […]

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A Conversation with Disney Animator David Block, Part 2 https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/a-conversation-with-disney-animator-david-block-part-2/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/a-conversation-with-disney-animator-david-block-part-2/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:20:18 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1609 A Conversation with Disney Animator David Block, Part 2 Get ready to be inspired by my conversation with veteran Disney animator, David Block. In the interview David and I talk about: the special qualities that animation brings to storytelling the aesthetic differences between traditional hand-drawn and computer animation David’s revered animation mentors the distinctiveness of commercial […]

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A Conversation with Disney Animator David Block https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/a-conversation-with-disney-animator-david-block/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-comic-muse-podcast/a-conversation-with-disney-animator-david-block/#comments Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:00:33 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1597 A Conversation with Disney Animator David Block Get ready to be inspired by my conversation with veteran Disney animator, David Block. In the interview David and I talk about: the special qualities that animation brings to storytelling the aesthetic differences between traditional hand-drawn and computer animation David’s revered animation mentors the distinctiveness of commercial animation […]

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Point of No Return https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/point-of-no-return/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/point-of-no-return/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:31:40 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1579 Last night at our company’s table read of Macbeth–our local community theatre is just starting rehearsals for a fall production of the play, for which I’ve been (great hollering haggis!) cast as the lead–I read these lines that Macbeth speaks right before our intermission (and as he contemplates further murder): I am in blood Stepp’d […]

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It’s Time. Come Learn the Art of the Storypreneur https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/its-time-come-learn-the-art-of-the-storypreneur/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/its-time-come-learn-the-art-of-the-storypreneur/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:02:45 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1545 From the launch of The Comic Muse it has been my intention to offer courses to entrepreneurs and executives from around the world interested in learning how to bring the principles of great storytelling to bear upon their businesses. Now I’m ready to go from intention to execution. Are you? This coming Monday, July 15, […]

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The Marketer’s Shorthand https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/the-marketers-shorthand/ https://thecomicmuse.com/the-more-or-less-daily-muse/the-marketers-shorthand/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:57:06 +0000 https://thecomicmuse.com/?p=1456 As a challenge to the thesis of my last post, Andrea Phillips via Twitter very kindly offered the following counterexample: Does this Audi ad manifest a novelist’s or screenwriter’s sense of story, or a marketer’s sense? Does it present, even implicitly, a protagonist’s pursuit of a goal amidst obstacles, or is the image simply meant […]

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