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Thank you all for the kind wishes for myself and my wife. Just a quick update on my wife, her paperback comes out today and she is also getting on a plane for Memphis to do signings and promotions at the American Booksellers Association gathering in Memphis. Her publisher offered her the...

I have decided it is time for me to move on from Mythic Scribes. If I have not finished something I promised to do for you, owe you money or a drink, or if you just want to stay in touch or perhaps get a drink together at a con sometime, feel free to shoot me a PM and I will give you an e mail...

Barbers were also immortalized in the fantastic Barber's Song from the musical version of Man of La Mancha Another great article SK. Keep up the amazing work.

Absolutely agree. It's like the telephone thing. The story is what you have to say, the prose is the telephone line that allows you to send the message. If you don't have something to say...why bother picking up the phone and dialing?

First off I think she should post whatever she chooses to post, but then she cannot complain when people post contra opinions. But if she wants to post material that clearly denigrates a route other people chose to walk then she has to be prepared for some push back. I don't think she should...

If we are using Maass as a marker, you should be aware that he is becoming more and more scientific over the years. He now reads many science journals and books and tries to bring what is learned through science and study to his writing teaching. Writing the Breakout novel is 2002 isn't it...

If Mythopoet wants a site where people just agree with her she should start that. If we are going to start creating ghettos here so people can just slander and insult other people's way of doing things, than this site will become a toilet in a hurry. People could avoid such problems with a...

I think of story as a chance to educate, edify and entertain. I want all three things from the fiction I read, and I want to deliver the same to my readers. How prose fits in is tricky. It is the medium by which I can transmit those ideas in my head to another reader. If I could skip all...

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I didn't mean to suggest it disproved your point, rather they ran exactly contra to the way that psychotick thought young writers should develop. Do let keep us in the loop on you thoughts on creativity, I am curious to know where they take you. And if you remember...

Your post so intrigued me Devor, I started looking at the examples you used and added one of my own, to see how it worked in the real world. So I couldn't find much useful about Shakespeare's early work, so it didn't add much, except that he likely had a traditional disciplined grammar...

I think talking to locals is a great idea. So are expats that live near you. People love to talk, at length, about the old country. The internet can help, of course. The best is finding a local restaurant run by someone from the locale you are interested in. Then you can ask them tons of...

So if you were running this site, you would ban beginning writers from it because it harms them?

Now this is very interesting stuff. I never knew we had much early life Shakespeare material to compare. Are there a couple of books on this approach you recommend? Anyways, let me try to understand your concern before I respond. Your worry is that people giving standard advice might...

Perhaps this is the real difference that lies between us. I am not annoyed by the fact that you choose to promote a story telling process that is very different from the norm. I am grateful that people chose to share their hard won wisdom with me. You seem to suggest they are in the process...

I will try to avoid political examples. My understanding is that all of the evidence we have indicates that storytelling cultures and traditions had and have rules or conventions they were expected to follows. Coming to a conclusion based on all of the available evidence is not the same as...