Lessons I Swear, the Fish Was This Big! 20 Jan 202023 Nov 2021 Well That's Overdramatic) Moby Dick is a lot of fun to read. The prose is grandiose, and the wordplay is incredibly imaginative. If I'm being honest, sometimes the text is…
Lessons We Can Do This the Easy Way, Or the Hard Way 13 Jan 202023 Nov 2021 A Split Path) On Thursday I will be posting the final entry in my latest short story. After the previous post, I pointed out that this ending could go one…
Lessons I Regret You 6 Jan 202023 Nov 2021 Karma) Oedipus is introduced at the outset of his story as a well-meaning king of Thebes. Not all is well in Thebes, though, the city has been cursed with a…
Lessons Bad, but Not Too Bad 30 Dec 201923 Nov 2021 On Thursday I shared the middle chapter of my latest story. In it, our main character has discovered an object that will create for him anything that he imagines. He…
Lessons First You Were There, Now You Are Here 23 Dec 201923 Nov 2021 A literary hero usually changes over the course of their story. That probably isn't a new idea to you. In fact, I have already discussed how the heavy use of…
Lessons Coming at It from Both Ways 16 Dec 201920 Nov 2021 My first story in this series was Shade. Here we met a hero who was fighting a losing battle, trying to keep a community safe from an unstoppable horde. Further…
Lessons The Changing of a Story 9 Dec 201920 Nov 2021 The Kernel) I am on the cusp of completing my story: The Toymaker. In it a small drummer toy is born to life, and then sent to find a mystical…
Lessons A Little Self-Reflection 2 Dec 201920 Nov 2021 Seeing Ourselves) Quite regularly we look at ourselves. Bathroom mirrors are an integral part of every morning routine, after all, and even if we say we don't care about appearances…
Lessons It’s a Long Way Home 25 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 Empty Halls) They say you can't go home again. In my case that is most definitely true because, you see, the new owners blew it up! True story. One Sunday…
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