What Makes a Hero and Why We Tell Stories
Thursday, 19, January , 2012
by Dan Jeffries
As I’ve studied the nature of stories over the last few months, a few things became clearer and clearer to me. Throughout time people have told the same type of story. There are several plots, whether it’s seven or seventy is irrelevant. Most of them boil down to the same characteristics. From there, they can
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A Personal Post
Wednesday, 18, January , 2012
by Dan Jeffries
I haven’t written in some time. Father, it’s been 4000 days since my last confession. Sometimes you just lose the thread, don’t know what to say anymore. For me it happened 300 pages into a novel I was writing. I loved a lot of what I’d written, but as I looked deeper and deeper into
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