Posts
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How to use flashbacks effectively: Nairobi dying (La Casa de Papel)
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La Casa de Papel: Nairobi tells a story to rile her troops up
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Four Types of Writing
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Creating a Character: the oblivious wife
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Learn while enjoying fiction
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A Pat on the Back
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How to use an Emotion Thesaurus
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The TK Filler
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What makes me laugh: A Rant by Ken, Mad Men
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Writing Concept: Want vs Need
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World Building session, connecting life experience to my world
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Oxford Definition Artifact
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Sharing raw evidence of my process was oddly satisfying.
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My writing day without progress, world building
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6/ the physical book is a holy reminder.
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5/ How to share your work? Choose a scrap from today that tell its story.
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4/ What to share with your scenius? Your work.
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3/ Become a documentarian of your work. Using all forms of media collect the process, the drafts, the ideas.
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2/ A scenius isn't about WHAT you bring to the conversation, it's about HOW you bring it.
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1/ Creativity doesn't come from a bolt of lighting, it comes from a "scenius".
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Identifying what obsessions to share.
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What do you obsess over? Share that.
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Flash Fiction #1
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Character Creation: a raw cowboy
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Working in Packets of Information: scene writing
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Story Challenge #1
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Mad Men: when the office takes a limitless drug
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Plot Theme Character, attempt #2.
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Pip's internal struggle
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My therapy journey: Reality and Imagination
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Sally's eyes on Don, a tense scene
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Don changed by a bar of chocolate
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Writing with flow, "It fell to the floors."
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Packets from Questions
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Fight club inspiration, fighting your survival instincts.
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Top Down Life Management: Weekly Review
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Top Down Life Management: Monthly Review
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Top Down Life Management: Annual Review
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: when distracted, make the task simpler
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, during a session
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, ending a session
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: Workflow, starting a session
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: collecting information
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: leverage
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What I learned about productivity in 2020: the goal of productivity
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What's your Story about?
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In-media-res: when a story begins
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"The psyche likes to make deals."
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Small Character Arcs
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Final Post for Manuscript #15 | my draft resources
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Keep your eyes on the prize.
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What if I told a story to...? (Your Target Audience)
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Brainstorming Storyteller Voices
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Writer vs Story teller in non-fiction | an example
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The Concepts: COLLOQUIAL VS FORMAL
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The Concepts: INTIMATE VS TELL
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What emotions are evoked in Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang?
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Short Reflection on 2020
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The Concepts: SHOW VS TELL
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The Concepts: PASSIVE VS ACTIVE
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Come over here, sonny, I've got a story for you.
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"Always read your writing out loud."
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I have a story to tell.
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Let's hack our way to good writing.
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The Brain verse The Mind
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Scene Editing Questions: where is pleasure and pain?
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What is good writing? Connecting Two Paragraphs
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Scene Building | a missed opportunity to dig deeper
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Jurassic Park | Plot Questions
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Mad Men | love, mind vs body
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Characters I want to write: Pat Solitano
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Does everything have to be accurate?
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Mistake Made | thinking too much during the first draft
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Flash Fiction, exercising my story muscle
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How to make a horrible character who you cannot hate?
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Scene Elements: Alpha Point
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Sandman: writing a character arc for a god?
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At what ends | my character's agenda in the cafeteria
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Thor catches a sea serpent.
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Ensuring Emotion in Important Lines: "it's game-day too"
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style | lowercase part 2
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Every manuscript I mistakenly have at least one bit (too) conceptual.
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Grounding Concepts through Character: ask, what mind-state could have a conceptual thought like that.
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A welcomed metaphor.
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lowercase texting is fascinating
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What is a good editing session?
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Setting Expectations with simple insights into the character
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One Plot from the Sandman Comics: a vortex, when our fictional stories become reality
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Surreal Superhero: John Wick
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there always are consequences, Don
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An Author's Eye: Forks
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Why do internal motivations and expectations create better writing?
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Writing the First Draft, Quality versus Quantity
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emotional writing expresses the psyche
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Mad Man #1, Don Draper
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although verse but #2
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Creating a Mysterious Character: John Wick
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Loki toys with Thor.
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Writing Journey | jan 2020, how does a professional writer think?
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a grammar remark: although versus but
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List of Digging Questions
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DIGGING, why is it the hardest writing work?
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What makes me laugh #3
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what happens when we stop dreaming
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Mike Tyson: fucking great character inspiration
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Coaching: 3 week sprints, manuscripts
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Characters are not in control.
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At what ends, a specific type of politician
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Not going enough: my character's motivations for traveling
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intuition | a final note.
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intuition | how to make the leap?
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intuition | common theme
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intuition | corrupted by repression
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intuition | corrupted by sentimentality
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intuition | corrupted by rationalization
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intuition | corrupted by beliefs
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intuition | corrupted by the senses
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intuition | what is a corrupted intuition
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Skeletons in the Closet
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MadMen, Season3: Peggy's Character Arc, a prediction
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What attracts us to new people, new friends, new conversations, new lovers?
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Character Blink: Mike, adding layers
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"Everything gets its meaning compared to something else."
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Curving Dialogue
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Searching for misbelief: mistaking a rash action with the creation of a misbelief
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My notes on Pan's Labyrinth
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How to write humans, not robots: personifying agendas
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How my coach thinks. Why?
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Game of Thrones, a mix of emotions
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Jurassic Park: perfect character arc
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The High Note blink review
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What a movie trailer promises: Trolls World Tour
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How does irrationality carry forward?
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Scenes on the Fly: Game of Thrones
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Suppressing our desires: Emoji movie
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Writing humans, not robots: questions list
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Writing humans, not robots: watch for math
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What a trailer promises: The Devil's Avocate
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intermittent habits
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make a system for internal purpose, not external.
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On Death
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My Purpose
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Why (Purpose) verse How (cause/effect)
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Theme is life's purpose.
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Plot/Character/Theme
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Heaven & Hell: rat experiment
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External goals verse Internal goals
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Moving up the hierarchy of goals: why 5x
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Ground Up with Characters
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GTD: ground up
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creating a character with a conglomerate of goals.
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A Conglomerate of Goals
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intuition | another extreme
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intuition | What are the extremes?
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Just let me sell you: The Good Place
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Why was I so blind, for 4 grueling months? #2
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Why was I so blind, for 4 grueling months?
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A Decision: Corporation verse Family Saga
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A movie providing two distinct emotions: Knives Out
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Manuscript Example: life purpose | before and after the realization
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Coaching: The Power of Deadlines
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Setting the Tone: Vikings
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Jurassic Park: how does it get away with the midpoint change in tone?
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Jurassic Park: midpoint genre (emotion) change
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intuition: Confusion verse Questioning
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Origin memory, the root of life's problems: Westworld's Benerad
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intuition: this blog
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Eyes Wide Shut: the mask scene.
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What a movie trailer promises: What We Do in the Shadows
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Summary of 4 months of misunderstanding and misdirection
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Emotional Register: Citizen Kane
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Find out if it's NOT your passion
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a stepping stone to pause and look at the view.
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Zodiac: hiding in plain sight
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What makes me laugh #2
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Conflicting Moral Decisions #2
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Lack of control over our future.
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Conflicting Moral Decisions
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Studying Scenes on the Fly
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intuition: how to use it as a writer | intro
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Emotional Register: A Wedding Speech
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Stories controlling what your mind doesn't see: Science-Fiction and Fantasy
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Where University Misguides Writers: what matters.
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Weird Science
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Foreign Films
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What a movie trailer promises: The Graduate
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Externalize, Ripple, & specifically Justify to a root cause
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Lucilla in Gladiator, what emotion is her storyline evoking?
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Where's safety? (how we don't express what matters)
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Gods of Egypt: Jordan Peterson
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What a movie trailer promises: Gods of Egypt
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When something isn't working, have the opposite happen.
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What makes me laugh #1
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Hiding our True self: why we don't express what matters