8 Apr 2020

Write through the Crisis: Journal to Improve Your Health

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While we are all stuck in our houses and busy stressing out, wouldn’t it be great if there was a quick way to improve your health with the tools you already have at home? There is, and it’s not just free weights. It’s free writing. If you have a pen and paper or a keyboard you have everything you need. We have thirty years of social psychology and physiological data to prove that simple journaling can have an immediate positive … Read More »
22 Feb 2015

The Beautiful Baggage Of Backstory

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Backstory is such a juicy element of story, it’s too bad it’s got such a bad rap. Sure, it can fill a plot hole, juice up a reveal, give us an “aha!” moment. Think of Faye Dunaway in Chinatown, “She’s my daughter, she’s my sister, she’s my daughter and my sister.” A single line of dialogue that changes everything. A great backstory, including that one, presents us with the heart of the matter. We know that having a big opening can grab our … Read More »