Archive - The Midpoint

National identity is nothing but a soap opera but your wrong to look down on either...

Jun 22 •

Benjamin Blaine

April 2025

How To Unravel A Mystery.

And why no one wants you to.

Apr 23 •

Benjamin Blaine

Where Does It End?

Finality in life and art. What Back To The Future teaches us about death.

Apr 11 •

Benjamin Blaine

March 2025

As Little As Possible.

The necessity of unsolvable problems.

Mar 26 •

Benjamin Blaine

Profound and Silly.

In which I drop my most controversial opinion and constant swerve to talk about Alien (as usual).

Mar 12 •

Benjamin Blaine

February 2025

Why the myth of the Second World War should make you question the purpose of your own writing. What does your story do?

Feb 26 •

Benjamin Blaine

How we spend our lives boxing the shadow of success.

Feb 12 •

Benjamin Blaine

November 2024

Is Your Journey Really Necessary?

On telling different stories.

Nov 20, 2024 •

Benjamin Blaine

And so it ends.

Nov 6, 2024 •

Benjamin Blaine

October 2024

A Boy With A Hammer.

Will AI Kill Writers?

Oct 23, 2024 •

Benjamin Blaine

Why successful screenwriting looks like failure.

Oct 9, 2024 •

Benjamin Blaine

September 2024

The first film to get a sequel was “Birth of A Nation”, DW Griffith’s wildly racist and hugely popular pro-KKK movie which came out in 1915 to be…

Sep 25, 2024 •

Benjamin Blaine

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