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Dracula vs. Nosferatu: How Murnau’s Vampire Improved on Stoker’s Classic

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/ 2.09 The Art Of Adaptation, 2. IGNITE YOUR WRITING TECHNIQUES

Reading Time: 3 minutesCryptic and shadowy greetings, my Fang-Inflicted Fiction Igniters! Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the granddaddy of all vampire tales, but F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) didn’t just adapt the novel—it transformed it. This wasn’t just about changing names to avoid copyright issues; Murnau’s changes actually made the story stronger, darker, and more thematically cohesive. One of the […]

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The Storytelling Playbook You Never Knew You Needed: A Deep Dive into John Truby’s The Anatomy of Story

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/ 6. THE WRITER'S LIBRARY

Reading Time: 7 minutesHello, Fiction Igniters! If you’ve ever wrestled a blank page like it owed you money, spent hours questioning your own genius, or tried to stitch together a story only to end up with Frankenstein’s monster instead of a masterpiece—boy, do I have a book for you! Strap in, my Incendiary Inkmasters, because today we’re cracking

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