Happy birthday to me! It’s been one blog-year since I began discussing how ‘desire’ fueled Bella’s quest in the Twilight series. Fifty-odd posts later and I’m still fixated on fictional characters and the sea-change they are forced to undergo as they pursue their goal. Why am I hammering away on this theme? Because the heroic [...]
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Never mind that Dante in his Divine Comedy inscribed these wonderfully horrifying words on the entrance to Hell…this warning should be posted at the threshold of every hero’s journey. Oh, sure, we’re full of hope for a while. That’s what the middle of a story is all about. Try, try, and try again. All [...]
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Want to “ride life straight to perfect laughter”? In a poem called “Roll the Dice”, Charles Bukowski tells us how. It starts like this: if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start… That’s the premise for his autobiographical novel, Factotum (also a film adaptation featuring Matt [...]
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“7 Rules You Were Born To Break“ by Rick Lewis. Check it out. No PhD in sociology for this professional meditator-performer-presenter. Lewis earned his credentials by travelling with a circus entourage in the U.S.A. and busking on city streets around the world. When he counsels us to defy the unwritten commandment to ‘Be Normal’ or ‘Avoid Mistakes’ [...]
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An apple falls from a tree. A mind miraculously freed from its mechanical conditioning rises in the spirit of what appears to be gravity reversed. And a third force – arguably the most important and much less welcome – sweeps people along on a journey towards their evolution as conscious beings. Of all the laws we’re [...]
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Story Structure To Die For is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered why readers read and why writers
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A phone call out of the blue sends ROXY on a mercy mission to a Greek island. Her estranged grandfather is dying. When her mother refuses
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The Flight of the Patriot
Yadi Sharifirad, Iranian Top Gun, national hero, and poster boy for the military forces of the Islamic Regime, thought his record spoke for itself. But he underestimated Ayatollah Khomeini’s antipathy for American-trained fighter pilots—all but a few were executed. Sharifi’s luck ran out when one fine day ...more
