by Amy Deardon | Apr 18, 2018 | Writing
I love to deconstruct story (fiction and film) to figure out how to deliberately incorporate the important elements that make a story “work.” Here’s a straightforward method to create a powerful character arc. Despite popular opinion that the character arc is a...
by Amy Deardon | Apr 12, 2018 | For Fun
This story is from an email I received. I would tend to doubt it… except the pictures speak for themselves. Meet the wiliest of all coyotes: Hit by a car at 75mph, embedded in the fender, rode for 600 miles – and SURVIVED! When a brother and sister struck...
by Amy Deardon | Apr 4, 2018 | Writing
The story goes that back in the day Winston Churchill gave this commencement speech. In its entirety: NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP. This is apocryphal, by the way, but it’s still expresses a true sentiment. At social gatherings...
by Amy Deardon | Apr 3, 2018 | Family
Old friends, old friends sat on their parkbench like bookends A newspaper blowin’ through the grass Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends Old friends, winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sun The sounds of the...
by Amy Deardon | Apr 2, 2018 | Religion
In the Christian World yesterday it was Resurrection Sunday, where Christians celebrate Jesus’ being raised from the dead after execution on the cross a few days before. Why is this important? Basically Christians believe that we humans will never be able to...
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