#Film

Descriptive Language that Sparkles

Kill your darlings! Get to the point! Plot over prose! How many times have you heard advice about simplifying your writing for middle...

Russell Hirsch

Oct 25, 20232 min read

We all know the feeling of finding our tribe. Whether we were kids discovering new friends on the playground, teens navigating a new...

Russell Hirsch

Oct 10, 20231 min read

Great books begin with great openings. It’s our first taste of a story that will excite, move, and enthrall us. And endings are just as...

Russell Hirsch

Aug 30, 2023

Well, we’ve turned the page on 2016 and are getting into the swing of the new year, but if you’re still seeking fresh inspirations for...

Russell Hirsch

Jan 22, 2017

Happy New Year to all! We have reached the 10th and final stage of a hero’s journey plot line and a fitting stage it is for January 1st...

Russell Hirsch

Jan 1, 2017

Huzzah! We have reached the Climax, the grand hurrah, the big shebang, a moment so exciting that only funny-sounding words can express...

Russell Hirsch

Dec 19, 2016

The beginning of THE END! We enter the third and final phase of a hero’s journey plot line. Act 3 Propelling Event Climax (aka Death &...

Russell Hirsch

Dec 10, 2016

There was Storythreads–or at least now there is! This is a blog by Vancouver-based writer Russell F. Hirsch. That’s me! I’ll be posting...

Russell Hirsch

Aug 19, 2013