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The Problem With Too Much Comfort

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Hey there! Thanks for visiting. But I’ve shifted to Substack as of 2022 and don’t actively publish here anymore. The Sopranos is my all time favourite show. In Season 1, Episode 8, Tony Soprano’s nephew (in fact cousin) Christopher says, “I don’t know, Tony. It’s like just the fuckin’ regularness of life is too fuckin’ hard for me or something.” Chris is working on a screenplay about the mafia. He’s been trying to write an arc for his character. He realises his own life has no arc. He is depressed because his life is mundane compared to characters in ‘stories’. The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else. If you watch a good biopic, you wouldn’t want to know about their boring afternoon visit to the doctor unless it contributed to the screenplay of the movie. In movies, everything happens for a reason. Chinatown won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In the movie, each and every scene, every event, every interaction contribute

The Sopranos is my all time favourite show. In Season 1, Episode 8, Tony Soprano’s nephew (in fact cousin) Christopher says, “I don’t know, Tony. It’s like just the fuckin’ regularness of life is too fuckin’ hard for me or something.” Chris is working on a screenplay about the mafia. He’s been trying to write an arc for his character. He realises his own life has no arc. He is depressed because his life is mundane compared to characters in ‘stories’. The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else. If you watch a good biopic, you wouldn’t wan

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