All shows, books, any form of literature does this directly or indirectly. Check out How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C Foster. (You can get it for free on libgen prob).
This is a very valuable resource that can inform you on how to approach this and other future scripts.
Do you know about A Sea of Words by Dean King? It’s a lexicon/companion to the series and helps with the nautical terms. There’s a German edition: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dean-King-ebook/dp/B007DFUQ72
there are a few readers guide books that really helped me see the connections. I recommend "Elegant Complexity" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002H9VXQC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)
> Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart
If I'm going to read a history book, as this one claims to be, I'd rather read it from a historian. And there are actual historians who deal with correcting bad ideas like the Dark Ages myth.
https://www.amazon.com/Atheist-Delusions-Revolution-Fashinable-Fashionable-ebook/dp/B00D99NS4O
This is largely outside of his field, and Hart is far too smug to be convincing to many outside of the faith.
Idk if this helps for writing but I came across this book called “Understanding Chinese Fantasy Genre” by Jeremy Bai. https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chinese-Fantasy-Genres-xuanhuan-ebook/dp/B08NP119NH/ref=nodl_
For anyone interested in worldbuilding, fantasy author MD Presley has a terrific new Youtube channel 'Forging Fantasy Realms.'
He wrote an excellent book on worldbuilding last year, so this is something he knows quite a bit about and has a real passion for.
I'm about to go watch the Dresden case study.
That you care about this is a good sign. The worst depictions of a race/gender minority is someone that says they've seen this stereotypical depiction before on TV, so why can't they write it now.
Writing the Other by by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward
Don't wait until a draft before reaching out for sensitivity readers. It's easier for non screenwriters to read an outline instead of a script anyways. And outlines are when you should be getting story and character notes anyways.
Well, hop on it! That’s where the “actual thought” of Christianity is to be found. It would be immeasurably more valuable to spend time contending with them rather than the oft-ignorant strangers you seem to routinely interact with on this subreddit.
I would imagine that the philosophical corpus of western theism would naturally be of interest to a critically engaged atheist. Even if you don’t agree with the conclusions of such philosophers, you’ll at least develop a far more robust form of atheism; certainly more so than the banal Richard Dawkins-esque type of atheism that I usually see around here.
Here are two initial suggestions. I would recommend something more foundational, but philosophy is harder than most people imagine, and these contemporary works will provide appropriate contextualization/defining of terms/summarizations of philosophical history for typical laymen who don’t haven’t gone through 4+ years of a formal philosophy program at university:
1. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, Hart
2. Five Proofs for the Existence of God, Feser
Reading these will also allow for you to more clearly figure out how to branch out into other important philosophical work, the names of which might be unknown/relatively inaccessible to you at the moment.
Here's one I bet you weren't expecting: SFF Nonfiction, published in the last five years.
It also has Self Published with under 50 reviews and most likely New To You.
Oh yeah, the book is Worldbuilding for Fantasy Fans and Authors.
Ah yeah thanks for the catch. I'm still experimenting with my style which is why i'm all over the place with tenses and perspective, I see what you mean about the present tense being more alive and immediate. I'm actually most comfortable writing in the first person. This is my first major work from the third person, so I haven't really found my third person voice. I'm reading this book at the moment.:
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Person-Possessed-Page-Turning-Fiction-Century-ebook/dp/B08D7V273R
I'd be interested if you have any references for third person style, or if you have any more advice.
I really Appreciate all of the read throughs. I skipped ahead to experiment with this scene, so I have a number of opportunities to introduce the concept of misdirection in the scenes preceding this one. I agree it would work better if the concept is warmed up before the analogy.
I would recommend reading Atheist Delusions. Ignore the sensational title. The aim of the book is to act as a strident defense of Christianity against some of the vulgar (in the sense that they are simple and unnuanced) attacks on it while also acting as a beacon for why Christianity is so important and unique. David Bentley Hart is a fantastic philosopher who is well-versed in history, philosophy, and rhetoric. It is a short, but substantive read that will educate you immensely on Christianity's incredible history and wonderful ethos of love, mercy, and compassion.
I suspect this is something of a false understanding of history. I noticed in Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis mentions he doesn't believe in the dark ages and renaissance in the traditional sense, and that has sense got me wondering if there hasn't been some distortion of history to fit a cleaner narrative.
I just picked up this book by David Bentley Hart, which despite the inflammatory title, sets out to correct the common understanding of the last 2,000 years, the dark ages and renaissance included.
It's curious. I'm looking forward to learning other perspectives than what I was taught growing up, and suspect that the narrative your graph suggests is flawed.