Surprising Science
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Some Brain Connections are Not Complete until Your 20s
Do you know that some brain connections are not complete…
Education
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Education K-12 Minimum Goals
Kindergarten through 12th grade education is immensely important. Of all…
Free Market
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Creative Destruction and the Social Contract
We are rightly proud of the economic achievements capitalism and…
Relationship Stories
Writing Craft Fiction
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BR How to Tell a Story
The book, How to Tell a Story, assumed that a book-length product, novel or non-fictional narrative was the end goal. Although I am most interested…
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Short Story Craft
Like Escher's Drawing Hands, reading my story to understand writing craft for future stories. Reading "Determined Friend" a short story I wrote about 15 years…
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Short Stories Surprise
My high school in the early 1960s, (Poly, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute) was trapped in love with Old English novels
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Speed of a Novel. Middlemarch
I just finished Middlemarch, George Eliot's masterpiece which I have avoided for fifty years. So, I'm glad to know it when it next comes up…
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Distance. Insight into Show, Don’t Tell
John Gardner in The Art of Fiction described a very useful addition to the discussion about point of view (POV). He called it distance. Distance…
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People Like Stories
Sometimes, when I trudge through the woods down a verdant path and I can't see the way forward in a story, I switch from wondering…
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Dialog in Fiction
Dialog in Fiction I stumbled across a lode for creating realistic dialog in a surprising book. Before I get to that, let me just highlight…
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Reading for Ethics in Literature
This class starts in a couple of weeks. Although I took a couple of philosophy classes back in the seventies at UMBC, where we discussed…
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Words Precise and Metaphors
Use words precisely and you communicate your meaning directly to the reader.
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