No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy?
carriejonesbooks Do you want to be happy? It’s a question philosopher Sebastian Purcell asks his students every year. Do you want to be happy? For Purcell being happy has a lot…
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Celestial Bodies, Sexy Knees and Story Structure via Robert McKee
You can learn a lot about culture by how it looks at what makes a good story and a good story structure. In Western culture right now, we tend to…
Strangeness Free-for-all
It ended up being a bit of a free-for-all as we talked about the strange things people do sometimes.
How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
So building a sympathetic character on the page is a lot like being a sympathetic character in real life. This sympathetic character is basically the opposite of a butt-hole. There’s…
Sometime When I Read a Poem
Sometimes when I read a poem, Right after, I have to find another and plunge Down between its lines, a better kind of baptism, Just to get clean. I run…