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The Heart of a Writer
Read more: The Heart of a WriterLast summer, two things happened. Firstly, one of my all-time favourite childhood heroes, Satoru Iwata, the CEO of Nintendo, passed away. As a gamer and an enormous Nintendo fan, I mourn his death, and with me many others. Across various social media, one of Iwata’s most famous quotes was posted over and over again: “On…
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The Technicalities of Creative Writing, Part 1: Narrative Modes
Read more: The Technicalities of Creative Writing, Part 1: Narrative ModesThere is another side to Creative Writing, one that has less to do with inspiration and letting your imagination run free on paper, but which involves a lot of eliminating, evaluating, repositioning, and table flipping. This less romantic, technical side is still an important -and rather interesting- part of the creative process, because it…
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Recognizing McDormand & Willis
Read more: Recognizing McDormand & WillisWhy we should all hug and recognize Frances McDormand and Bruce Willis (On the therapeutic effects of complex characters)
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The Revolution Mixtape
Read more: The Revolution MixtapeI ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more. Well, I wake up in the morning. Fold my hands and pray for the rain. I got a head full of ideas that are driving me insane. It’s a shame she makes me scrub the floor. These lines mark the first sentences of a song by…
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And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters
Read more: And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters“And now, puny generic sci-fi superhero, I shall charge up my hyper-flux-capacitated antimatter bomb, and annihilate your entire planet! Lawrence, cue the evil-laugh tape!” Anti-matter (or, alternatively) antimatter is an age-old favorite power source among writers of scifi and superhero comics alike, which is probably why most people you’ll talk with will at least admit…
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