Suspend Your Disbelief
The nature of any good story is not so much its ability to get me to believe it’s true, but it’s ability to get me to suspend my belief that Continue Reading →
Author Archives: yahwahn
Mary’s Story
Mary is a fairly typical 12 year old girl. She does well in school, has plenty of friends and loves sports. She lives in Southern California so she’s outside a lot. She Continue Reading →
Workshop Guilt Issues
If you’re working on a Guilt ‘issue’ you have several challenges, most of which have to do with how you think about your characters. If you’re feeling guilty it’s probably Continue Reading →
More on Feelings and Emotions
As we said in our Basic Assumptions, you are embodied with Divine Qualities. They are an inherent part of your nature and crucial to your development physically, emotionally and spiritually. Continue Reading →
Anger
Anger is quite a bit different than Sadness or Fear in that it feels like a very powerful emotion. Powerful in the sense that it is aggressive, it makes us Continue Reading →
Fear
Fear will give your body a heightened sense of awareness. Your heart will be beat faster, you might be a little shaky and a nap will be the furthest thing Continue Reading →
Sadness
If I’m Sad I’m probably feeling a bit lost and empty. I might even feel betrayed. My sorrow could be wrapped up in with a sense of loss or grief Continue Reading →
Feelings and Emotions
For our purposes we’re going to say feelings are internal; something we ‘feel’ inside. They are visceral and get our juices flowing, literally. They often cause our body to secrete Continue Reading →
Affirmation
An AFFIRMATION is a purely positive statement that pertains directly to you. It must be completely personal to you and your situation and it must be something you can completely get Continue Reading →
The Resolution
The RESOLUTION of your story is where your Protagonist prevails over the CONFLICT by making the right decisions in the CLIMACTIC MOMENT. In real-life we don’t always make the right Continue Reading →