I have added story consultant to my servicew offering as a professional screenwriter. So many storylines I come across need substantial development to reach their full potential - or the potential of the story concept. The story concept and the story itself must be compatible. Some story concepts best suit certain narratives - and genres. I can help with things like this - and the narrative itself. Most stories, whether for scripts or fiction prose are nowhere near as good as they can be....

Big budget, high profile films like SUPERGIRL now face a problem such films have never faced in the past. It’s called YouTube. If you released a blockbuster 20 years ago, sure, word of mouth spread fast via text and voice, and that would affect the film’s performance. 40 years ago, word would have spread face to face and via voice over static phone lines. If the film was bad, it would have not been negatively affected by word of mouth anywhere near as quickly as 20 years ago, let alone now,...

To examine the shortcoming or excellence of AI as a way to create film and story plots that work, I instructed an AI synopsis generator to create a storyline for me. The story synopsis at the top, below, is what the bot came up with. The synopsis under it is my version of it. Take a look at what I have done and ask why, and why it works to improve the AI synopsis. What's different? Do we see here one of the many reasons why so many bad stories get told in film and otherwise. The AI generated...