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A house, a garden, two dreams, and a fig tree | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. A house, a garden, two dreams, and a fig tree. May 12, 2011 in Short stories. Thousand and One Nights. Stories are built from details. Without details, most stories evaporate into bland synopses. But a really catchy story can change up its particulars and keep going with the same knack for continuous renewal that an urban legend or internet meme has. Link, but this sentence itself doesn’t really link to what I’m supposed to be talking about, so I’d b...
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Lessons learned from China Miéville, pt. 4 | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. Lessons learned from China Miéville, pt. 4. May 5, 2011 in Novels. This is the fourth and final lesson I’ll cull from Miéville’s. This one’s a bit longer than the others. It has to be: the whole point is to unpack everything Miéville manages to cram into one tiny little scene. Complete with headlegs, headwings, and headbody. No more character names like Sleazebaggo, okay? Miéville describes these two by contrasting them, a technique I’ve used too, an...
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stevebein | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. You are currently browsing stevebein’s articles. Why you don’t mess with a classic. December 26, 2012 in Uncategorized. Here’s a lousy plot for a Batman story: the Joker plants a bomb of lethal laughing gas that will choke half of Gotham City, and the bomb is set to go off in sixty years. And here’s what looks like a non sequitur but isn’t: I finally got around to seeing. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In the case of the. Lord of the Rings. Movie...
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Why the cantina scene alone is enough to show the real Star Wars movies are far, far better than those awful pretenders claiming to be prequels | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. Why the cantina scene alone is enough to show the real Star Wars movies are far, far better than those awful pretenders claiming to be prequels. July 28, 2011 in Uncategorized. In my first post on this site, I mentioned that I might someday write a post explaining a reference to the cantina scene in. That day has come. Once again I violate my ban against discussing those god-awful prequel movies that everyone else seems to think are. As sure as Glamd...
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John Carter, Saigō Takamori, and That One Guy from Dances With Wolves and Avatar | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. John Carter, Saigō Takamori, and That One Guy from Dances With Wolves and Avatar. March 22, 2012 in Uncategorized. I would have enjoyed this movie even without the sword-wielding goddesses and four-armed aliens, and I’m having trouble figuring out why. I couldn’t stomach. Dances With Wolves III. The Last Samurai II. Dances With Wolves II. We’ve seen it in. And here we can see it again in. So why did I like this movie? Sequel, it really helps if in ca...
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Rudi Dornemann | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. You are currently browsing Rudi Dornemann’s articles. A house, a garden, two dreams, and a fig tree. May 12, 2011 in Short stories. Thousand and One Nights. Stories are built from details. Without details, most stories evaporate into bland synopses. But a really catchy story can change up its particulars and keep going with the same knack for continuous renewal that an urban legend or internet meme has. Link, but this sentence itself doesn’t really l...
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Testing a cross poster… - Amberdine
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Testing a cross poster…. Jun 5th, 2012 at 11:59 PM. Because maybe if I get the cross poster actually working I will post more. (FWIW, I have no intention of abandoning LJ, I just want to give people who aren’t members an ad-free option for reading.). 9 comments Leave a comment. Jun 6th, 2012 12:04 am (UTC). Jun 6th, 2012 01:21 am (UTC). What program are you using? Jun 12th, 2012 05:22 am (UTC). Running WordPress on my site, with the JournalPress plug-in. Jun 12th, 2012 11:51 am (UTC). View my Tags page.
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Why you don’t mess with a classic | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. Why you don’t mess with a classic. December 26, 2012 in Uncategorized. Here’s a lousy plot for a Batman story: the Joker plants a bomb of lethal laughing gas that will choke half of Gotham City, and the bomb is set to go off in sixty years. And here’s what looks like a non sequitur but isn’t: I finally got around to seeing. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In the case of the. Lord of the Rings. It’s not a good film, but I think there. Okay, says th...
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A little ditty on how language itself can be a commentary on culture | It's the Story
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It's the Story. Digging into stories that light us up. A little ditty on how language itself can be a commentary on culture. July 22, 2011 in Uncategorized. I wandered across a little piece of wisdom a few posts ago, captured in the word. Bloodrust. It’s perfect. It describes exactly what it is, without a single extra word of description from Miéville. He drops it in a single sentence and then moves along, leaving us to wonder how the bloodrust got to be there. And when we ask ourselves t...The fact that...
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