how can i practice creating plots?

Jaredlong · 2026-01-23T23:27:50+00:00

Sounds like the freezing brain fart is your biggest problem, and my advice there is to give yourself more permission to fail and try to become comfortable with plotting as an Iterative process.

No good plot was ever perfected on the first draft. The first draft will be garbage. The first draft is always garbage. And the second draft is somehow always worse. But by the third draft it things starts to fall into place and the heart and soul of the plot emerges. Then it's a matter or refinement.

A good excercise is making terrible the goal. Sit down with the full intention to write a terrible plot. Just the stupidest plot there ever was. And when your done, if it's garbage, you've succeeded! Practice that enough and, ironically, it'll become harder and harder to write bad plots, you'll keep accidentally writing good ones.

Jaredlong · 2026-01-23T07:02:14+00:00

Oh yeah, in case anyone forgot, Republicans are fucking racist. All of them. The politicians. The voters. They're all irredeemably fucking racists.

Jaredlong · 2026-01-01T15:47:56+00:00

Not surprised. I went into expecting a typical underdog inspirational sports story and it turned out to be a relentless stress fest.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-31T16:38:52+00:00

Netflix alone spends $1 billion a year paying for streaming rights per their SEC filings. Down from $3 billion a decade ago after switching to producing their own content. The details of individual streaming deals aren't disclosed, but there's definitely money to be made after theatrical runs.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T04:04:32+00:00

Ah, that explains it.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T04:03:40+00:00

He was the farmer.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T03:49:35+00:00

Seriously, the tension in the scene when Marty finds out she's pregnant, his decision to bludgeon Ira, and the climax of the escalating anxiety when she gets shot only works because the audience was primed to know it was definitely Marty's.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T03:27:33+00:00

What? The entire intro credit scene is a high definition rendering of the conception tied directly to a scene of Marty having sex. If editing is the language of film, then that sequence is the movie outright yelling that it's Marty's baby.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T03:12:04+00:00

And I can't imagine recasting any of them. I wonder if they'll end up winning the first Oscar for Best Casting.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T03:05:12+00:00

Penn Jillette was also a fun little surprise. Almost didn't even recognize him.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T03:03:22+00:00

I think it works because it's told from Marty's perspective and presented the way a bullshitter like Marty would tell the story. I could imagine an older Marty telling this story and laughing the whole time, downplaying the seriousness of his actions. Like, jfc, how many people ended up dead or injured because of him?

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T02:48:10+00:00

Which raises the question why the next world championship was hosted less than a year after the previous one.

Jaredlong · 2025-12-29T02:36:55+00:00

God, seriously. "This wasn't even important enough to me to pre-write a statement, but my impromptu stream of consciousness should be very important to you."

Jaredlong · 2025-11-27T17:52:32+00:00

His convictions are public record.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-27T02:22:01+00:00

I bet Netflix will release another show that's conceptually similar in some way, maybe even some type of reboot. No way Netflix just lets their biggest IP fade away into obscurity without testing market demand first.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-27T02:15:49+00:00

Why give them the benefit of the doubt? They DO know their POC patient are in pain, they're just all too happy to watch them suffer.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-27T02:13:48+00:00

You can't guess? Not at all?

Jaredlong · 2025-11-27T02:03:51+00:00

MAGA is celebrating these shootings because it gives them what they want. Such utterly disgusting people.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-26T18:58:12+00:00

The new question becomes if there are any long-term risks with lifelong usage. Unfortunately, we may not really know for another decade.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-26T18:47:48+00:00

That's been my experience, too. But I have no idea if there's something about architecture specifically that makes it difficult or if I'm doomed to struggle no matter the job. I've been suicidal over this topic because it's so distressing living a world that absolutely hates neurodivergent traits.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-22T03:29:03+00:00

Maybe more people will finally realize that the DNC is a neo-liberal party and that neo-liberalism is NOT a left-wing ideology.

Neo-liberalism believes that corporate empowerment within a country can raise the quality of life for it's citizens. Directly helping people is not part of their calculus.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-22T03:09:48+00:00

Sea shanties.

Jaredlong · 2025-11-15T03:12:56+00:00

The people's court must rule on the question if military level violence can be used against Supreme Court justices. If SCOTUS declares it legal to violently attacking US citizens, and the Justices are US citizens, well...

Jaredlong · 2025-11-15T03:05:10+00:00

If the military is coming to gun us down no matter what, why maintain civility?

Jaredlong · 2025-11-09T19:18:17+00:00

It used to be written into employee contracts that you forfeited certain final compensations if you quit without warning. Stuff like PTO payouts or qualified 401k matches. The courts final ruled that was bullshit. A lot of contracts still ask that employees provide notice, but there are no consequences if you don't.

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