Lessons Do Reasons Even Matter? 28 Feb 20227 Mar 2022 The Ends Justify the Means) The 1960 film The Magnificent Seven opens on a town being taken advantage of by Calvera, the head of a notorious gang of bandits. Calvera…
Lessons The Ever-Widening Curtains 26 Jul 202130 Dec 2021 The Completely Understood) The premise of Rocky is established early on in the film. Apollo Creed, the heavyweight boxing world champion, has an opponent cancel on him and seeks to…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 5 4 Jun 202130 Dec 2021 The Storm is a very short story, and yet it still maintains three distinct acts. Thus far we have made it through the first, in which Oscar learns of Harry's…
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…
Short Stories The Cruelty of King Bal’Tath 27 Feb 202027 Nov 2021 "Counselors Uni and Morath," the servant announced, bowing low before the King. The King nodded deeply, the long curls of his wiry beard touching to his breast. Then he waited…
Lessons Making a List, Checking it Numerous Times 3 Feb 202027 Nov 2021 Some Theoretical Lists) Last week I mentioned that a story can often be broken into a series of lists. The most obvious of these is a list of sequential events,…
Short Stories Hello, World: Part Two 26 Sep 201919 Nov 2021 I wasn't fired, though. Not immediately. Nor was Dave for that matter. We were in the thick of a company-wide emergency that required all-hands-on-deck. We'd clean up our mess first…
Short Stories Hello, World: Part One 19 Sep 201919 Nov 2021 ***** Executing Unit Tests......0/107 Complete; 0 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped23/107 Complete; 23 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped72/107 Complete; 66 passed, 0 failed, 6 skipped...... "And it never finishes?" I…
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