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LATEST POSTS
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Leadership Pep Talk (for Kids)
The Hot Coal I know you’re just a kid. You don’t know much about how the world works. You don’t have many skills yet and you’re not very strong. But I know you have a “vision”, a picture in your head, of how the world could be better. That “vision” is blurry, and it’s hard
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Breaking Free – Chapter Three
Em announces she is leaving tomorrow and going to university. She buys her own car and says an awkward goodbye.
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Emergency Mode v.s. Routine Mode
In Emergency Mode, you’re rarely able to say “no” to anything, because all your resources are focused on merely staying alive. You lurch from one crisis to the next. It’s in Routine Mode that you are able to set goals that go beyond survival. You can plan ahead and look at your purpose. I am
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“But Emergencies are Thrilling!!”
A shout out to my reader in Ireland! I see your flag every post in my stats. (Howw arrr ye en te emreld isle? Hallooh from Australia!) When your team is in Emergency Mode, life is thrilling. You feel really “alive”. You have to react quickly, like a jet pilot in a dog fight. Every
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Breaking Free – Chapters One and Two
Seventeen year old Em works in a takeaway shop and is dominated by an angry mother.
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Can you plot a story backwards?
This is the Freytag Pyramid, which breaks narrative into its parts. Normally, we start at the beginning of the story on the exposition and follow through cronologically to the end, the denouement. (It’s Fronch, so don’t say the ‘nt’ on the end, of course.) I set myself a challenge of plotting a narrative that has
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