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Kevin Smokler
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Kevin's Tips on How to Tell a Great Story
Ironclad truisms..
1. All stories have a beginning middle and end, like a piece of music. The end is never "that's my story" but the beginning can be "let me tell you a story."
2. Every word you say pushes the story forward. if it's there to add color, background, etc, it should be one sentence and quickly return to the main thrust of the story. Do not get caught up in side points, asides, pauses f Read more of this blog post »
1. All stories have a beginning middle and end, like a piece of music. The end is never "that's my story" but the beginning can be "let me tell you a story."
2. Every word you say pushes the story forward. if it's there to add color, background, etc, it should be one sentence and quickly return to the main thrust of the story. Do not get caught up in side points, asides, pauses f Read more of this blog post »
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.”
― Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
― Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- ... Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload
“By sighing and saying, “Remember when” too many times, one can fall into the trap of believing the present holds nothing sacred, the past nothing profane.”
― Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
― Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
“When we return to our elementary school playground or the site of our first kiss, we're dropping in on our own history years later. Visiting those same places in the present not only collapses time, but also memory.”
― Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
― Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Crazy Challenge C...: 2023-2024 Reading Roulette | 550 | 136 | Jan 27, 2025 05:25AM |
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
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“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Practical Classics: The Clubhouse
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— last activity Mar 05, 2013 01:28PM
Wherein we reread classics from high school as grown-folks. High schoolers who feel like grown ups welcome!
Tell Me Everything Fans Book Club
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— last activity Feb 13, 2019 08:16PM
**DISCLAIMER: This is a FAN Group & is NOT run by John Fugelsang OR the show** This group is for fans of the show "Tell Me Everything w/ John Fugelsan ...more
Might be a fun experiment to have people vote on the books you're talking about...