Pinch Me, Baby, Talking Sexy to Writers
carriejonesbooks There are some things in the writing world that don’t make a ton of sense in the world of regular humans. One of those things is pinch points. This podcast…
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Just an Hour a Day Makes You More Bad Ass
There are a lot of people who advocate spending just an hour a day doing something to become awesome. That hour a day is often learning. You study up about…
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
On last week’s podcast and the one a few before that, and in a post, Shaun and I talked a bit about plot structures and narrative structures and how here…
Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
Last week, maybe a week ago, maybe 82 years ago, who knows, we talked about alternative plot structures. Much of American film and novels is built on what’s considered to…
No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy?
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…