How to Read a Movie

How to Read a Movie

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse
April 2, 2018

Generally, I only read a film when it is in another language, but this week I learned how to read any and all films. In Robert Ebert’s article, How to Read a Movie, I found it interesting how the placement and movement of characters in a film have such a subtle but effective way of controlling the …
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How to Survive Week Five

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts, Writing for the Apocalypse
February 19, 2018

This week I told myself I would get my work done in a timely manner. I started out the week well by gaining my bearings and watching all of the videos and going through the resources for the week. On Wednesday, I got thinking about my character, Tala Madeira and wrote her an in-depth backstory. Wednesday …
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My Storage Container Home

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1757
February 5, 2018

The year is 2025 and I live in post-apocalyptic D.C. in my storage container tiny house. During the years of the apocalypse, my home protected me from viral diseases and extreme, destructive natural disasters. Now that the initial collapse of the old society has died down, I have been adjusting to life after the apocalypse. …
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A Dirty New World

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2164
February 5, 2018

Finally, the humans are gone. The humans, along with all other “living” beings were obliterated in the apocalypse. Even for me, a mere speck of dirt, the apocalypse was absolutely terrifying. I was thrown around from field to forest to sidewalks to anywhere you can imagine. I am so relieved that horrible experience is over. Currently, I …
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Alternate Ending to ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse
February 5, 2018

*My alternate ending is bolded* In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! as if it were afraid nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine! In the kitchen the breakfast …
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How to Read a Movie

How to Read a Movie

How to Survive Week Five

My Storage Container Home

A Dirty New World

Alternate Ending to ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’

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