From the monthly archives:

July 2010

The New Archetypes Part 1

July 19, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Archetypes in the movies is certainly nothing new.  It’s almost impossible to discuss Star Wars (OT obviously) without talking about heroic archetypes and heroes’ journeys.  Many of those archetypes are so ancient that they are as old as storytelling itself.  Movies aren’t ancient but they seem to have had quite an effect on storytelling in [...]

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Know Thyself

July 9, 2010

Recently, a person in my writing group lent me Dorothea Brande’s classic guidebook, Becoming a Writer. First published in 1934, this book is packed with solid advice for anyone wishing to become a novelist. One insightful gem is the idea that, if you want to write great stories dealing with life’s “big ideas”, you must [...]

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Fantasy of a Closet Writer

July 6, 2010

Image via Wikipedia If I wrote and drew a comic strip for a daily paper I’d sit down every Sunday morning with coffee and pen at the kitchen table, hopefully with a gentle eastern sun coming in at a good angle, warming my shoulder maybe, and I’d sit there and dream about my characters, doodle [...]

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