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What is a "plot" and why "subplots" don't exist
The following is a section from my upcoming free ebook Nontraditional Plot Structures for Neurodiverse writers. It comes out May 1 and will be available on this blog! WHAT IS A "PLOT"? This may seem like an unnecessary section. Any writer who chooses to read this book already
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Adapting "Little Miss Muffet" into a Chaos-structured story
I've written about Chaos before. First, in my post about the concept in general, and then in an analysis of "Hey Diddle, Diddle" as a manifestation of a Chaos structure. Now, I'm going a step further. I'm doing an adaptation of "
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"Hey, Diddle, Diddle", a Nursery Rhyme Built With Chaos
"Hey Diddle, Diddle" (HDD) makes no conventional sense. Theorists and literary critics cannot agree about HDD. Some believe it's "literary nonsense". Others insist it is "gibberish". These are actual literary distinctions. I want to reinterpret and clarify a nursery rhyme that can
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Star Wars Isn't Star Wars
I watched an Instagram vid this morning all the way through. That's a rare event as I have only a modicum of patience for vids. The vid was done by Jason Pargin. I've watched his vids before. He writes about film and culture. This piece was
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My former playwriting professor David Rush Died two weeks ago
U r a wundrful writr One of the first things David ever said to me, in our first conversation as mentor and student, was, "I accepted you because you're a woman." When he showed me the Emmy he had won, I said, "Yeah, but, aren&
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PROFESSOR DAVID RUSH TAUGHT ME HOW TO CRITIQUE
This format for critiquing is one used by the former playwriting professor, David Rush, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The point of a critique is to determine whether or not the writer has created a work which conveys his or hers intentions. If the author wanted to write a horror