Lessons Meet My Friend, the Story 15 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 What is Shakespeare?) The best stories permeate with character. As I suggested at the end of my last post, I do not mean "characters," in the terms of protagonist, antagonist,…
Lessons A Mind of its Own 8 Jun 202013 Dec 2021 Do you write a story to express yourself, or does a story express itself through your writing? Many the creative soul has spoken of being moved to make things in…
Lessons This Changes Everything! 27 Apr 20201 Dec 2021 Beings of Change) I've never had the convenience of meeting the same person twice. I've known many people under the same name, and usually all somewhat similar to each other,…
Lessons Get to the Point 20 Apr 20201 Dec 2021 A Reason For the Chaos) One of my favorite films is Gravity, in which a cloud of debris is orbiting the earth, each piece of shrapnel racing through space faster…
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 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 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 Stop, You Fool! 11 Nov 201920 Nov 2021 In a previous post I discussed the matter of giving the reader and the main character different amounts of information. In most stories the reader and main character share the…
Lessons Character Wrinkles 15 Jul 201918 Nov 2021 At the end of my last story I teased the fact that I used a character's name to imbue the story with an extra dose of personality. What I meant…
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