Lessons The One, True Story 28 Sep 20206 Nov 2024 To Kill a Watchman) Less than one year before her death, Harper Lee's novel Go Set a Watchman was published to considerable controversy. First and foremost was the concern that…
Lessons Don’t Look at Me, This Wasn’t My Idea! 21 Sep 202020 Dec 2021 A Misstep) Sometimes a story doesn't go the way that you expected. Ideas that seemed so solid become mush when you try to write them out, or the pacing that…
Lessons I Know What You’re Thinking 14 Sep 202019 Dec 2021 Mind-Reading) In Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the nameless narrator is silently deliberating the plight of an unsuccessful local actor. Just as he comes to this…
Lessons A Small Appetizer 7 Sep 202019 Dec 2021 A Story Dragging Its Feet) In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back we watch as the core heroes are divided into two groups, and we follow each one's different arc…
Lessons Just a Little Innocent Manipulation 31 Aug 202014 Dec 2021 Cunning Little Devils) Eddie Mannix should not take the new job offer from the Lockheed Corporation. He should retain his faith in the magic of cinema instead, for the silly…
Lessons Play it Again 24 Aug 202014 Dec 2021 It Sounded Different the First Time) There is a classic folk rock song called Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin, and every time I hear it I have a…
Lessons Self-Contradictions 17 Aug 202014 Dec 2021 Disproving Your Own Point) Very early on in The Matrix, we have established to us that the "Agents" are too powerful to be fought against. To stand your ground against…
Lessons Do You Like Me? 10 Aug 202014 Dec 2021 Strict or Lax) One decade ago I served a mission for my church, and there were a lot of rules that we missionaries were expected to abide by. Our days…
Lessons You Never Really Knew Me 3 Aug 202014 Dec 2021 Characters Exposed) Stories have the unique ability to show us things about their characters that we could never know about another person in real life. At their most intimate, they…
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