Author: breakinglight11
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“Relating” versus “connecting” to a story
Something I find myself dealing with a lot when examining how people are affected by storytelling, and what powers that storytelling has to affect us, the concept of “relating” to something comes up a lot. Note that by “relating” I specifically mean that identification process– NOT just what I would call the process of “connection,”…
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Choices of the Author, Death of the Author, and Something in between…
When it comes to literary interpretation, I have a few concepts I use as guides for understanding the meaning of a work. Since I got into some discussions where people didn’t necessarily see the delineations I did, I thought I’d talk about some of the concepts I use to make it clear how I approach…
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Apparently only dudes in Westworld are complex enough to have darkness
I’ve been watching Westworld on HBO, and I intend to watch it through to the end, but I’m not very satisfied with it. I mean, besides the fact that I’ve always had a huge mental block against sympathizing with robots as characters, as I still basically think they’re always going to just be things, it’s…
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The challenges of plotting Mrs. Hawking part 4
Bernie and I have begun work on Mrs. Hawking part four, tentatively titled Gilded Cages, and we’re running into some challenges. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, as we’ve had this happen with each subsequent installment, but this one has presented some difficulties that are thus far unique. The biggest thing to deal with is…
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Reflections on 31 Plays in 31 Days 2016
Well, I have completed the challenge for the fifth year in a row! I sure do like looking at five years’ worth of complete lists of everything I wrote. I went into this wondering if maybe it wasn’t a good idea to do the challenge this year. I was finishing up a piece, the Hood…
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31 Plays in 31 Days 2017, #31 – “True Gentleman”
I powered through and finished! EARLY too, the earliest I’ve ever finished the 31P31D challenge, but I had the time and I wanted to knock it out. This last one deals with an idea I’m surprised I’ve never noodled with before. One little character bit in the Hawking stories that I enjoy is the fact…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #30 – “Alone”
Here I go again, banging out important, high-emotion moments from stories that I can’t fully picture in too short a period of time. That is a recipe for wasting them. But I just want to finish 31P31D 2016 at this point, and I’m so close, so I’m just going with any idea I think I…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #29 – “After Two Years”
A brief moment from the seventh Mrs. Hawking story. It takes place two years after Mrs. Hawking and Mary have a fight that makes them go their separate ways. Here Mary returns to London on a case, and she runs into Mrs. Hawking totally by surprise when she’s working the same case. Their reunion is…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #28 – “Loyal Servant of the Empire”
I hate how this turned out. It was written too fast and without the planning that it needs. It’s an important scene from Mrs. Hawking part four, but it messes all the important parts up. In the flashback to Mrs. Hawking’s youth in the Asian colonies, I want there to be some injustice happening there…
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31 Plays in 31 Days, #27 – “Grow Up”
Ugh. So here’s the problem with this scene. It’s another for the Fraiser spinoff pilot, but it uses an idea I’m not sure I want to include. I really want to have Freddy believe that David came to him in need, which create a sense of responsibility to his cousin that he latches onto for…
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