Every week: one craft technique stolen from games, film, TV, or manga –
plus honest updates from Project Cyber, my novel-in-progress.
Fellow learner energy only. No guru nonsense.
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One personal moment from the week. Not a summary – a specific thing that happened. Grounds everything that follows.
One technique, named and shown in a specific game, film, book, or TV show. One question to ask your own story.
Honest progress on the novel-in-progress. What I wrote, what I got wrong, what I'm still unsure about.
One game, film, or book I'm analyzing. One craft thing I noticed. Short, specific, useful.
One action only. Usually a reply prompt – because the best newsletters are conversations, not broadcasts.
Most writing newsletters teach from craft books about craft books. This one teaches from the stories you've already spent thousands of hours inside – the games, films, and shows that shaped how you understand narrative.
The thesis is simple: great storytelling technique doesn't stay in its lane. What makes a game's opening act devastating is the same thing that makes a novel's first chapter unforgettable. We just need to find the mechanism and transplant it.
That's what The Story Lab does every week.
"The craft educator who analyzes stories across all media – games, film, TV, novels – to help beginner-to-intermediate speculative fiction writers understand the transition from other storytelling formats to writing their own novels."
Join The Story Lab – free, weekly, and written by someone who's figuring this out alongside you. No guru energy. Just the techniques and the honest process.
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