Lessons Read My Lips 14 Dec 202023 Dec 2021 Friends No More) There is a scene in A Man For All Seasons where Thomas More must end his friendship to the Duke of Norfolk. Not because he dislikes the…
Lessons Why Do You Write That Way? 7 Dec 202022 Dec 2021 It Once Was Much Worse) At the end of my last story piece I mentioned that I had run into a little bit of trouble when transitioning from one scene…
Lessons The Speed of Punch 30 Nov 202021 Dec 2021 Too Fast For It's Own Good) I have a big pet peeve in action movies. It's something that has been going on for a long while, still finds its way…
Lessons Oh, Go Be Bored! 23 Nov 202026 Sep 2024 A Story of Me) I never lacked for food, clothing, or shelter as a child. I never brought any complaints to my mother in those departments. What complaint I do…
Lessons Just Because I Can 16 Nov 202021 Dec 2021 I thought it fitting that after having completed fifty short stories I am about to try something I've never done in my writing. At the end of my last story,…
Lessons The Self-Examined Son 26 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 Usually at the conclusion of each story, I leave a little space at the end to review all the different lessons I gained from writing it, and to summarize all…
Lessons A Place Most Bizarre 19 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 Big and Small Minds) I have never had much luck explaining the message behind allegories to my son. I can tell him a story about the tortoise beating the hare,…
Lessons Just Dazzle Them 12 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 Movie Magic) Old time cinema was used for more than just telling stories. Indeed, several of the original films were particularly light on story, with only threadbare plots and single-dimensional…
Lessons The Watering Hole 5 Oct 202020 Dec 2021 A Calm Amidst the Storm) There is a video game called Shadow of the Colossus, in which the main character has trespassed onto forbidden lands and seeks the aid of…
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