Story structure

Why Story Structure is Important

by Phil Gladwin on April 4, 2010

I’m spring cleaning at the moment, and have been on an archeological dig through the boxes on the very top of the shelves in my office. I found a fascinating folder full of short stories and chapters from novels that I wrote during the first ten years I spent as a writer. I had a [...]

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Happy Go Lucky – Almost…

by Phil Gladwin on May 2, 2008

Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky is a great movie. Simple, poignant, and beautiful. All things I like. So why didn’t it – quite – work?

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Control & The Counterfeiters

by Phil Gladwin on October 19, 2007

I’d hoped to bring you two warm recommendations of two movies you had to go and see at all costs. Both from this side of the Atlantic. Both getting great reviews, from all the British national newspapers right through to Rottentomatoes.com Sadly… Control is the story of a little ol’ Manchester band called Joy Division. [...]

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