"The Confession" is a high-profile example of a particular category of Web series: those made by television and film veterans who, looking to the future, are trying to get a toehold in the world of small screens and 5-to-10-minute narrative blocks.
So peculiar are history's narrative building blocks.
Then we need to construct a narrative that blocks the hawks from blaming Obama for "losing" Iraq, and turns the focus on the neo-conservatives, Republicans, and Democratic hawks who took this country into a sea of blood.
At every opportunity he telescoped the narrative, making each block of three scenes slightly shorter than the previous one "so that you get a sense of acceleration".
Given that most of the largest Clinton advantaged states- the deep South--are behind us now, and the Bernie-leaning Western states, working class industrial Midwest, and liberal Northeast, have not yet voted, the "Path to Victory All but Blocked" narrative of the New York Times, reflects not our reality, but the wishful thinking of the corporate media and Democratic Party establishment.
According to their narrative, they first blocked the Mercier Bridge and later erected a second barricade on a dirt road to stop bulldozers from clearing the way for construction on land they believed was theirs, and which included a sacred burial ground.
Nothing about Mr. Block's narrative is predictable or even suitably bleak, given the nature of the illness he addresses.
It's such a familiar building block of narrative fiction and cinema – the character who finds themselves in a bizarre alien society, and by the end the journey has changed both the protagonist and the world itself.
Rather than just fiction tweeted, writers could find narrative in retweets, faves, blocks, and unfollows, and write in not just words but images, GIFs, emoji, and hyperlinks.
Screenwriting is not about crafting lines of dialogue: it is about wielding the building blocks of narrative and thinking in pictures.
