The Moral Premise Blog: Story Structure Craft

Discussion and analysis of screenplays, scripts, and story structure for filmmakers and novelists, based on the blogger's book: "THE MORAL PREMISE: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success".

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Project Hail Mary (2026) - Good and Bad Science

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Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Screenplay: Drew Goddard Antecedent: Andy Weir's novel STARRING: Ryan Gosling (Ryland Grace), S...

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Recent Screenings and Recommendations

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Captivating Nostalgia and Thrills in SUPER 8 Pam and I have reactivated our motion picture screening routine after a hiatus due to family s...

Friday, January 30, 2026

ChatGPT's vs Grok's answer to: "What is The Moral Premise?"

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Here is ChatGPT's output for: "What is The Moral Premise?" -------- The Moral Premise is a storytelling concept that describe...

Saturday, January 10, 2026

SABRIYA Writing Journal No. 11 - An Unsettling but Compassionate Interchange with Chat-GPT

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Sabriya and Sir David Kensington I just had a "chat" with Chat-Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT). I was unnerved. I will sh...

Friday, December 5, 2025

Pomegranate the Movie Scores Big

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Below is a link to Fox 2 Detroit's coverage of a film I worked on as a script consultant for years, and then as its first Executive Prod...

Thursday, November 13, 2025

SABRIYA Writing Journal 10 - MORE (Take 2) Capturing and Engaging Your Audience

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In keeping with the previous post on Writing to Capture and Engage Your Audience (Writing Journal 9), this post highlights storytelling tech...

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