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Book Club
Here's the list of books from my bookclub. If you're interested in joining, please be aware that membership is highly restricted, and you must be either a brother of mine, or a brother of a brother of mine. Rules are that the books must be critically acclaimed Sci-Fi, from rece…
Characters in Fiction
Writing a book and struggling to make either a good book or powerful characters? I have original and useful ideas. Possibly wrong, but definitely helpful. What are characters for? In the book "How to Write a Damn Good Novel", James Frey says: Characters are to a novelist what…
Missing Mothers
A moment of silence for all of the fictional mothers that had to die in the name of tragic back story and character development. — @ *Snape* on Mother's Day 2015 This is something my daughters have noticed. It seems like every movie we show them: the mother is dead, sick or miss…
Story Layers
I've worked out a proper grand unified theory of story telling, and it's much simpler than all the old theories. The Search for the Grand Unified Theory of Story Telling Some people analyze stories and say things like: There's a plot, and there's a story. The plot is just what…
The 32 People You Meet In Heaven, Hell and Everywhere Else
Consider the The Big Five Personality Traits, i.e. - Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious) - Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) - Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved) - Agreeableness (friendly/compassion…
The Action Hero Theory
There are two kinds of male action heroes -- the tough guy and the pretty boy. The key to the tough guy is not what he does to other people but what other people do to him. In particular: he can take a punch. The defining feature of action hero stories is that the hero *does* …
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