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My Life is A Testimony of Jesus' Love
Have you ever considered how God could use your story for His Glory? He gave you a specific set of talents and your experiences in life helped develop those. Could it be that your story could show Jesus to someone hurting?
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Ten Brilliant Retellings of Classical Myths by Female Writers
And One Singer-Songwriter. By Sarah Henstra.
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Possible Terrorism
When Sal Vulcano got someone else's package in the mail, he decided to play a little game with the intended recipient and ended up getting in way over his head.
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Sydney Is Fun. You Should Think Of Relocating
Sydney is one of the most happening cities in Australia. I went to Sydney a few years back and loved every second of my time there. The ...
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Try Gifting Personalised Gifts To Your Loved Ones
It was my best friend's birthday last week and I was confused about the gift that I was going to give him this year. I wanted to give hi...
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A Sorry Excuse for an Article
I’m trying to make consistency a habit. But DAMN—consistency is tough.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - Visual Storytelling
Cinema is a visual language. This much is true across all forms; for this reason, the visual language is, in my opinion, the most beautiful and nuanced beyond all others. After all, just one image truly can be worth a multitude of words, and each of these words can be nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. However, in cinema, images don’t just exist separate from each other as they often do in their predecessor craft, still photography. In cinema, images corroborate with one another and derive exponential more meaning than any one image can. For this reason, the language of cinematic imagery is able to tell a story in a way that...
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On Absurdity. Adorno, Beckett, and the Demise of Existentialism
“Even though, then, the Existentialists have experienced absurdity, the senselessness of human existence, they essentially end up affirming the perpetuity of the human subject, which is exactly what the experience of absurdity, being one of evanescence, denies.” By Timofei Gerber.
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Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us?
Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories. By Ted Scheinman.
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The Gunfighter
Eric Kissack
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The Complicated Backstory to a New Children’s Book by Mark Twain
Mark Twain left behind notes for a children’s story, soon to be published. How faithful should it be to his perspective? By Mythili G. Rao
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Structure
Beyond the picnic-table crisis. By John McPhee.
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Vlad the Astrophysicist
Peter Mulvey tells the story about an astrophysicist and a centuries old question.
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Rod Serling on Kamikazes
Blank on Blank
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Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
Our occasional series on storytelling in video games travels to Pelican Town to explore the bucolic pleasures of Stardew Valley, a farming simulator inspired by the classic 1990s Harvest Moon games.
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The Intrusion Artist
The director Robert Bresson used his camera to observe humans so nakedly that the resulting films can seem cruel. Yet Bresson’s gamble was to turn these acts of theft and violation into a way of conferring power on the models themselves. By Max Nelson.
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“Love Hurts” MVI 4962
Tom Sitter at The Moth in Madison StorySLAM (Feb. 13, 2017)
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Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”
A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.
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The Intergalactic Battle of Ancient Rome
Hundreds of years before audiences fell in love with Star Wars, one writer dreamt of battles in space. By Lorraine Boissoneault. (Dec. 14, 2016)
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Four Lessons for Storytellers from Four Movies of 2016
2016 was a pretty good year for movies- at least, it was from my perspective. While there were some notable disappointments (Batman v. Superman being my least favorite film of the year), there were also some great surprises, such as the mysterious and moving Midnight Special. Even the big budget popcorn flick Captain America: Civil War was brimming with character and surprisingly good writing. Four movies from 2016 really left me thinking about what storytellers across mediums stand to learn by watching them. Be forewarned, this article includes spoilers...
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