Essential Aspects of Kick Ass Narrative

Exposition balance – How much detail is needed about the situation, technology, laws, etc, for the audience to understand what is at stake for the characters? True for any genre, the audience must have enough fluency about the premise or scenario without being overwhelmed or bored by minute esoterica. What’s the sweet spot between mystery…

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2025 Chapter More

Novella [11/8/22] riff on Elon Flashbacks Grown Up Ghost Best Scenario Yet Joe’s parting speech to the Clique Prompt – cargo cult and luxury travel mashup Canyon Princess mining script-synopsis-v4/ christina-prequel-questions/

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Notes 2025 Chapter Veronique

see Entheogenic Realm notes about Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards, here Joe applies his new knowing, while keeping in his hip pocket the old fuckery. It’s not that he isn’t transformed, it’s just that he retains the full palette of action. Is trauma the cure for trauma, by presenting Veronique with her fears, she is able to…

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Notes 2025 Chapter Entheogenic Realm

the hero’s journey (on a dirt bike) [plant the seed, poof! big bike. ride the ride with sparkles] Here’s the Wizards moment, when the transformed more lovable loving Joe faces the horror of his own arrogance, a force more stifling than the Clique, the abandoned and abused child, the latch key left alone little girl.…

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Notes 2025 Chapter Romantic Interlude

Joe and Box fall in love, and what does the eternal Clique double agent realize? Is there a scene where he’s lying naked with She Box, as if they have just had sex? Maybe he’s smoking a joint? Maybe she’s smoking too? Speech.

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