STEFANO BOSCUTTI

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Journal

Public, personal and private insights, thoughts, reminders, scenes, ideas, sketches and more. Along with an admonishment or two every now and then.

Six best reasons to get your main character drunk

Three reasons why F. Scott Fitzgerald liked lists

Two exercises to make your characters stand out

Character by any other name

Three things to learn from fear

Photo of the cover of the 1937 “Film Daily Product Guide and Director’s Annual.”

Orson Welles: Hays Code

Good stories are strange

Three quick ways to nail your main character’s main flaw

What is your life’s purpose?

Five ways social reading will enliven books

Photo of Elvis Presley shaking hands with President Richard Nixon.

Elvis Presley: When Nixon met Elvis

Orson Welles: Todd School for Boys