• HiPPO: Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
• ZEbRA: Zero Evidence But Really Arrogant
• Seagull: Seagull Manager
• WoLF: Works on Latest Fire
• RHiNO: Really High-value New Opportunity
• PUFFIN: Plans Unending Feature Factory Initiatives
• GOOSE: Guesstimating Overly Optimistic Scheduling Estimates
• PUMA: Promotes Unusually Meaningless Assumptions
• CoBRA: Cognitive Bias Related…

As writers, people are always rushing terms our way that we're supposed to know. I decided that I had enough random definitions floating around, so I wanted to create a glossary that had all the dramatic principles I think storytellers need to know in order to be successful.

These are all the words I have accumulated over my career, and that I come back to when trying to craft a spec…