THE ART OF STORYTELLING

MAVERICK REVIEWS / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: Agenda Driven Scripts

MAVERICK SCRIPT REVIEW: Captain Marvel – Agenda Driven? (Spoilers)

I’ll be the first to tell you that it is virtually impossible to pen any script, or to tell any story, without forming a bias. Storytelling by default has a slant, not to mention, an agenda, and there’s really no getting around it. It’s just the nature of the beast. […]

Enneagram: Type Four "Individualist" / MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

Type Four “The Individualist”

WHAT’S UNDER THE HOOD Peek under the hood of a Type Four and you’ll be both amazed and bewildered. You may find an engine and maybe – you won’t. You may just find a big glass jar, that is painted with pink hearts that captures rainbows. After all, this car, […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

Type Three “The Achiever”

WHAT’S UNDER THE HOOD What powers the Type Three is impressive – from the engine, down to the paint job, straight to the wheels. The entire damn machine is a work of art – spotless, and showroom ready for friends, family, and strangers to enjoy. To sum it up, Threes […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

Type Two “The Helper”

WHAT’S UNDER THE HOOD? Type Twos are the compulsive givers of the Enneagram. Their choice of engine doesn’t matter, as long as it’s powerful enough to tow their trailer of love. Generosity powers their motor, playing savior – is their nitrous. The hospitality of a Two is free. But when […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

Type One “The Reformer”

WHAT’S UNDER THE HOOD? To make things a bit easy on the imagination, let’s use a car to explain what a Type One personality will look like. When you steal a peek at the engine of a Type One, you’ll see an engine block, alternator, and battery, that is perfectly […]

MAVERICK REVIEWS

MAVERICK REVIEW: Kid Who Would Be King (Spoilers)

TOO MANY LOGICAL FAILURES  One of the major rules that I have with storytelling is “to make it believable.”  It doesn’t matter if you’re writing the next installment of the MCU universe, or writing a business proposal for your start-up, you need to make your idea – believable.  Whatever you’re […]

Sports Commentary

PATRIOTS WIN SUPER BOWL LIII AND NICK FOLES

As the dust settles on Super Bowl 53, three undeniable facts remain true: The Patriots and Tom Brady are incredibly hard to beat in the playoffs and the Super Bowl. The Giants and Eli Manning beat them twice in the Super Bowl The Eagles and Nick Foles beat them once […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

STEP ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ENNEAGRAM

Before you freak out, don’t worry, I’m not trying to recruit you to some version of Wicca. Step One doesn’t involve joining a cult, that happens in Step Three, after I ask you to submit a DNA, which is Step Two-Point-Five. The purpose of this page is to brief you […]

MAVERICK STORYTELLING: STEP ONE

THE MAVERICK WAY

If directors tossed their agendas, millions of dedicated fans wouldn’t be screaming at Disney, for destroying the Star Wars franchise. If journalists didn’t distort the truth, Americans wouldn’t have to question – the news. If documentaries made an effort to tell the whole story, instead of trying to recruit your […]