Do the Right Thing: Telling Better Stories With Meaningful Stakes

Lessons from the movies on why it’s more interesting to do the right thing

Lance R. Fletcher
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readJul 18, 2023

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John Wick’s a morality tale.

Sure, it’s a popcorn flick about a guy who has a higher body count than Omaha Beach, who stabs people through the neck with Ticonderoga #2s and rides into battle like a Mongol…

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