Jim Hull's Story Fanatic

This is Story Fanatic, a collection of articles covering story structure and analysis for
creative writers. Published weekly.

Friday, Jun. 18

Productive Groupthink

Michael Arndt on working at Pixar and why they wouldn’t let him work at home:

One person can have half an idea and another person will fill in the other half, and someone will come along and top it. There’s a sense when things are firing on all cylinders that the organic intelligence in the room is just much higher than even the smartest person in the room. Because suddenly you have this collective solving story problems much, much faster than any individual can solve them.

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Story Fanatic is a website dedicated to investigating the wonderful world of story. From story structure to theory, analysis to writing, the articles on this site are an effort by Jim Hull to explore why some stories work better than others. Since 2005, 314 articles have been written. Read more »

About the Author

Jim Hull is so into story that in 2008 he started teaching Story Development at the California Institute of the Arts. His wish is that each and every one of his students goes on to receive worldwide recognition for their storytelling abilities. And that they thank him at the Oscars. Read more ⇒

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