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✒️ Monthly Arts Seminar – August 2026
A space for StoryTalkers to discuss (with me and each other) the arts, craft and business, and the challenges they’re facing on their creative journeys
Welcome to August’s “arts seminar” from 5AM StoryTalk! Paid supporters of this newslett...
☕ 5AM CoffeeTalk: August 2026
So, how did your July go, StoryTalkers? Mine was…good? I sound hesitant there, I know, but that’s only because it’s been some time since a whole month passed where I felt the sum of it was a net positive, so to say.
With regard to work, I...
'The Odyssey': How Christopher Nolan Adapted a 2,700-Year-Old Epic
Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon. Source: Universal Pictures
Over the past week or so, I’ve spent considerable time here at 5AM StoryTalk discussing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, especially classicist and translator Emily Wilson’s review of i...
💬 Weekly Question: What's the worst creative advice you've ever received?
This week’s question doesn’t require too much set up: What’s the worst creative advice you’ve ever received?
The rest of us will want to hear about the context in which it was given, why it proved so disastrous, and what, if anything, you...
Emily Wilson's Christopher Nolan Hit Piece Is Painfully Transparent
Every week at 5AM StoryTalk, I publish a minimum of two feature articles. However, this week it became clear that the first of these – an epic breakdown of the approach to and storytelling decisions behind Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey –...
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Screenwriter (creator, NBC/Sky's DRACULA) | Novelist (PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD) | Host of 5AM STORYTALK podcast. Storytelling craft deep dives, emphasis on film/TV, in between trying to make sense of the 21st century through the lens of art.
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