“You are victim of the rules you live by”—Jenny Holzer. Conscious Mind vs Subconscious Mind Humans have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. The conscious mind is all the things you are currently aware of and thinking about. It contains all the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes. This also includes our memory, which is not always part of consciousness… View Post
Alice: You know I’m forty, right? Harry: I knew that, like ballpark. –Home again, 2017. WRITING Script Classics: Everything I Needed to Know About Character Development I Learned From a Fish | WritersDigest.com Characters in Cars Thinking, or, How to Deal with the Passage of Time | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® Should Your Main Character Be Likable? | Writer Unboxed Fizzle or Sizzle? How… View Post
Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. —Matrix, 1999. As you know, the alchemy’s goal was to find a way to transform stones into gold. That’s why alchemists used to search for what was known as the philosopher’s stone—a substance that would… View Post
Leonard Schiller: Freedom isn’t the choice the world encourages. You have to wear a suit of armor to defend it. —Starting Out In The Evening, 2007. WRITING Mastering the 4 Key Elements to Support Your Novel | Live Write Thrive Dilemma: 4 Powerful Steps to Make Your Characters Choose | The Write Practice Deepening Our Story: Theme It Like You… View Post
Forrest Gump: My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” —Forrest Gump, 1994. Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. As of February 2018, he is one of China’s richest men with a net worth of US$41.3… View Post
Jim: When I was younger, I thought having the perfect Shakespeare quote for every situation would make me beloved. Keith Michaels: It’s surprisingly unhelpful. Jim: Yeah, it seems to really annoy people. —The Rewrite, 2014. WRITING Don’t Write Scenes-Write Images | Helping Writers Become Authors Five Guidelines For A Great Chapter Two | Go Teen Writers How to Write a Story… View Post
Angel Dupree: [Narrating] Tonight, I had the opportunity to study grace and generosity under the direst of circumstances. Even in “their darkest hour”, Officer Charlie Lang and the good-hearted Ms. Yvonne Biasi shared a bowl of soup with me. When I left, this good Samaritan gave me money from his own pocket, wishing it could be more. —It Could Happen… View Post