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".

Saturday, January 10, 2026

SABRIYA Writing Journal No. 11 - A 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...
Monday, November 10, 2025

SABRIYA Writing Journal 9 - Capturing and Engaging Your Reader

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In September and October (2025), I made several presentations to writing conferences in Florida, West Virginia, Michigan and on-line on  How...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

SABRIYA Writing Journal 8 - The Real Drama is Mostly Invisible ... VALUES and Inner Monologues

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I have finished plotting out Sabriya as an action thriller novel, if such a thing exists. (see pix below of Keynote plot outline.) The story...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Adam Livingston Descendants Join Wizard Clip Book Signings

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Jeff Livingston and Stan Williams Several weeks before I left Michigan for a speaking and book signing tour to Florida and West Virginia, I ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

WARNING: Wizard Clip Jr is Dangerous for YA Readers

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Only 8% the length of the full-length novel. Available in paperback and ebook editions. Recently we released the YA adaptation (Eve's St...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

SABRIYA Writing Journal 7 - Laughter, Reading, & Distractions

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LAUGHTER The laughter comes from my ever-changing mind about the working title of this book I hope to write. I got tired of trying to pronou...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Sabriya of Shenzhen - Journal Entry No. 6 (Grammarly)

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Over the past week, I've been forced to take a break from Sabriya of Shenzhen to make progress on another novel... the one before Sabriy...
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