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North by Northwest stars Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, Eve Marie Saint as Eve Kendall and James Mason as Phillip Vandamm. Alfred Hitchcock directed it from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman. It was…
Fatherland, written by Robert Harris and published in 1992, is set in a world where Nazi Germany won the Second World War. By the nineteen sixties, Germany dominates…
If you’re writing an alternative history story and your readers say they find it implausible, this article shows how to make them suspend their disbelief by using a…
Intelligence agency mottos have always fascinated me, so here’s a collection of their mottoes along with brief explanations. Why Intelligence Agency Mottos as Posters? Why not? I’m a…
Being a writer can be a tough job and we need to take inspiration wherever we can find it. The thoughts of other writers can remind us of…
One of the fun things about Alternate History is inventing flags for the history we have imagined. Below are some of the alternative history flags I have created….
Humans have been using story archetypes to tell stories since we evolved the ability to speak. We have been writing them down since we invented the ability to…
Hanna stars Saoirse Ronan as Hanna Heller, Eric Bana as Erik Heller and Cate Blanchett as Marissa Wiegler. Joe Wright directed it from a screenplay by Seth Lochhead…
A killer logline is a must have. Everyone knows they need one, but what is a logline, exactly? And how the hell do you write one? Is there…
Argo stars Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, Bryan Cranston as Jack O’Donnell and John Goodman as John Chambers. Ben Affleck directed it from a screenplay by Chris Terrio….