Americans will measure distance in anything except the metric system—school buses, blue whales, and of course football fields. But that odd habit might reveal something deeper about how human brains actually understand scale.
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Jan 23 2026
If AI Loves Your Writing, Be Very VERY Worried
AI is the new buzzword. Everything AI! Yet, we’ve fallen into the AI Uncanny Valley, and now we want to know who’s real and who we can trust.
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Oct 11 2024
Agency: The Critical Component of ALL Great Stories
Agency is when a character is involved in the story, forced to make decisions and take the consequences good or bad. It propels story action.
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Mar 02 2021
‘The Silence’ Movie: How to Botch Storytelling in Every Way Imaginable
Why all the griping about ‘The Silence’? Other than I needed to gain something from the 90 minutes I can never get back? Movies, as I mentioned earlier, can teach us a lot about storytelling.
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Sep 03 2020
Character Building: How Story Forges & Refines Characters
Ultimately, fictional characters reflect the real human experience in a distilled and intensified form. This, however, doesn’t give an automatic pass on authenticity.
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