Author: Russ Doherty

Writings

Writings

2020, First published short story, Drought, at Summerset Review. Nominated for PEN Award for Best Debut Short Story. Best of 2021 Short Story, The Towers, Potato Soup Journal 2022, The Rope-Nest, Evening Street Review, No. 38 2023, Beautiful Things, The Quiet Reader 2023, Renaissance, The Opiate, Vol. 34Have you got that summertime, summertime sadness? Why …

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Plague Post

Plague Post

Danger, Will Robinson.  This is a time for slowing down and reading, lots of wonderful books out right now. Just finished Ann Patchett’s novel Dutch House, Ta-Nehisi Caotes’ The Water Dancer, and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. Rich reading, all of them. Different times, places and people.  And I’ve just finished a new short …

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Pixar Rules

Pixar Rules

This information is found on numerous sites on the internet. I just wanted to reinforce its significance. One of the most important reasons Pixar’s work touches so many people is their belief in the importance of good storytelling. Pixar knows that visual beauty means nothing without:      22 Rules of Storytelling      Here are Pixar’s …

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Annie Hall

Annie Hall

Screenwriter Clay Frohman brought this movie to my attention to show that—even when a director has finished the movie he wrote and spent millions on—it can be a complete nothing for an audience. Sometimes an editor is the only one with enough insight and distance from the writer and director to make an actual satisfying, …

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