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I could drive around West Virginia all day long and find things about it I love. I mean look at this; a plastic palm -cement light house be...

 “The light house moment” a term meaning that a character in a story discovers what it is that he or she wants and declares “I’m ...

The character has a moment of recognition; he knows what he has to do

In a romance quest we find what is valuable The romantic hero always has a connection to nature

Agony (Agron) the struggle that shows what is valuable 

Ask yourself, is there a call to adventure? 

For a story to be successful good values must be incorporated into it, nobody cares about a person with out good values

The romantic quest, all romantic heroes have a call, a quest

Is nature your characters restorative force?

Reveal character in what they say, what other say about them, what they do How was the character shaped by history? By politi...

Freytag das erregende moment:   “The inciting incident” What is your stories inciting incident

The Lost child motif and the found child motif

Locate the ache in each character, the deep longing, the currant longing

Ask yourself, what is the obstacle in the character's way?

Our character has to have a powerful objective (Outer, or visible) objective

pathemata mathemata (Greek):  the character learns by suffering. 

Tragedy has a winter landscape in which nothing can grow, anti-fertility Comedy is fertility

The romantic hero is called by a herald meaning a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen. Heralds were...

Omnibus  AHM-nih-bus  1: of, relating to, or providing for many things at once 2:       containing or including many items The...

Chinese Activists Send Cards to Hundreds of Prisoners of Conscience 2017-01-26 Rights activists in China have launched a gre...

Need inspiration to fight Trump?   Look to Bayard Rustin, the man who organized MLK’s  March on Washington  Los Angeles Times

Ab Ovo  ab-OH-voh  From the beginning "Ab ovo usque ad mala." That phrase translates as "from the egg to the apples...

Sanction  SANK-shun  1: To make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (such as ratification) 2: To give effective or au...

Eli AKA the Houdini of Labradors, slipped out of his pen and took an investigative cruise around the house, stopping by Mary’s office to sn...