Regarding Song of the Mysteries by Janny Wurts: a masterwork of this level requires attention, active participation, and patience to…
Category: Creative Crossroads
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ADVENTURES AT ICFA-PART 4, DAY 4
Art by Lauren Brown
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ADVENTURES AT ICFA- PART 3, DAY 3
Day 3: You may have noticed in my last post that I had an extremely eventful day 2 at the…
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ADVENTURES AT ICFA- PART TWO, STILL DAY TWO
PART 2 I lied. Not because I meant to. I was just mistaken about the timeline. There was even more…
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ADVENTURES AT ICFA- PART ONE, THE FIRST TWO DAYS
Journey to Another World
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CRITICS AND ARTISTS
I was listening to NPR the other day and they had a show on that was discussing the music review…
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DEEP DIVE – PART 5
So now that we have all this information, what do we do with it? Easy answer. Whatever you want. These…
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DEEP DIVE- PART 4
Take a look at the above chart. The blue arrows symbolize the word interrelates. As human beings, our emotions are…
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DEEP DIVE- PART 3
This week’s purpose is to break down Theme and Form into its most basic definitions: Theme is: what to say.…
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DEEP DIVE – PART 2
What are we looking for in a story? What makes a story good or bad for us? For some of…
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS DEEP DIVE 1
Let’s start, if you dare, by taking a deeper dive into story analysis. Yeah, I know. Who am I to…
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CHOICES
Last week I brought up the topic of Player Characters and the choices (or lack of) they have in a…
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WORLD BUILDING
Part of the appeal of playing Dungeons and Dragons, especially during my younger creative years, was building your own world…
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THE LEAP (You Tube beginnings Part 2)
A big thank you!
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THE SEARCH (you tube beginnings part 1)
A Critical Journey
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CREATIVE ADAPTING
Short Film-A Last Resort
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REVIEW TIME
Writing reviews can be tricky. There is something to the adage of know your audience when you take on the…
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UH, OH, IT’S MAGIC!
Back in the mid 1990’s, a new game arrived with a big splash called Magic the Gathering. It’s a collectible…
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THIS IS NOT ABOUT POLITICS
It’s all about the art.
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SIDE TRIP
So, I’m back in New York City this weekend for the first time since 2009. This time it’s to look…
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WRITING IS HARD
So… it turns out that writing is hard to do. At least for me it is. I have a strange…
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SELF PUBLISHING THE WRONG WAY
Over the course of ten years of schooling I would manage to write a short story or two. These are…
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CUT!
Next I tried my hand at directing. We at Mindbeside Studios had two films under our belt. The director for…
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THE INSANITY OF COLLECTING
To Collect or not to Collect?
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CREATIVE PASSION- FEATURE FILM
The Killing Hand
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DID I LEARN NOTHING IN HIGH SCHOOL?
Inspiring Professors are so important!
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READING BEGINNINGS
I was a late bloomer. That’s a pretty broad statement, but I’m specifically referring to reading. Sure, I read a…
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CREATIVE FUEL
My first immersive experience into a creative endeavor was with the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game. It pretty much…
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THAT CREATIVE LEAP
Where do I go from here? By this time in my life I’ve had my toe dipped in almost every…
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