Lessons Rebirth 13 May 201917 Nov 2021 It's always interesting to meet an old friend after years apart. Sometimes the person has changed entirely, and it feels like you're new acquaintances all over again, meeting for the…
Lessons Going For It 6 May 201917 Nov 2021 Imagine vs Do) I wonder which gymnast commentator was the first to excitedly shout "...and he sticks the landing!" It's become a staple of the sport, used to signify that…
Lessons A Proper Motivation 29 Apr 201916 Nov 2021 Our Driving Force) Motivation is the parent of action. All that we do in life we do because of our desire. Even the most basic of things, such as movement,…
Lessons Setting the Mood 22 Apr 201916 Nov 2021 What is Mood?) Every story has a mood, just some of them are intentional. Mood is something that is a difficult to pin down directly, because it always hangs in…
Lessons Lost and Found 15 Apr 201916 Nov 2021 The Catharsis of Losing and Finding) This last Thursday I suggested that loss is an integral component of most stories. It certainly has been central to each short piece that…
Lessons It Follows 8 Apr 201916 Nov 2021 This last Thursday I made mention of a core question that drives a reader through to the end of a story. This question is universal across all mediums of story-telling,…
Lessons Myths 1 Apr 201916 Nov 2021 On Thursday I posted a short story about a Sweet Bay tree being confined within a college multi-purpose room. At its core, that story was meant as an allegory for…
Lessons How to Finish 25 Mar 201916 Nov 2021 It has been said that every story begins in media res. This means that there is always something that has occurred before the action picks up and there is always a…
Lessons Would I Lie to You? 18 Mar 201916 Nov 2021 On Thursday we had the second segment of Phisherman, in which our narrator let us into his home, more of his thought processes, and described various body sensations. But all…
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