When it comes to writing, it is sometimes hard to judge where the line between not enough and too much exposition lives. Storytelling that is truly impactful and which leaves the most lasting impression is of the kind that draws your audience in carefully and leads to a satisfying, emotional […]
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As of tomorrow, I start my first NaNoWriMo. Not sure what that is? It’s a masochistic little exercise wherein I attempt to bang out the first draft of a minimum 50k word novel in 30 days. It’s called National Novel Writing Month, and it’s an annual event that happens from […]
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This November, I’m doing something crazy, something I’ve been toying with for ages. Every year, writers from around the world participate in this crazy, off-the-rails, manic form of group hysteria called National Novel Writing Month, foreshortened to “NaNoWriMo”. The idea is to pump out the first draft of a novel […]
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” — Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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After college, I tried to start a Rock and Roll mathematics band, but couldn’t get no satisfraction,
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As a lover of storytelling, it is difficult not to have a love/hate relationship with the “Shaggy Dog” format…
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You love your precious snowflake indigo child, and don’t want anything to ever go badly for them. We don’t blame you, we are parents and love our kids too and that’s why we, here at Nano-Wings™, we have developed the i-SkyProtect child safety monitoring system. Whenever a child is out […]
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Friends and family have long known of my love for the much-malighed Feghoot. What, pray tell, is a feghoot? Wikipedia defines it, somewhat dryly, as : A story pun (also known as a poetic story joke or Feghoot) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically […]
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