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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween to everybody! If you’re curious, Dean Winchester is a character from the TV Show Supernatural. Welcome to Night Vale is a free humor/horror podcast produced by Commonplace Books (very appropriate for Halloween!) Read more
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The Editor’s Scalpel
Brief Housekeeping: Some of you may have noticed a lack of updates this month. Due to school being school, I’ll be changing my schedule to post every other week instead of weekly. In my experience editing, I’ve noticed I use two words more than any other: “comma” and “cut”. The former, being one of the Read more
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Going back to the Potato Room: the power of places
The Potato Room I like to think of myself as a casual gamer, more interested in stories than actual shoot-em-up action– which is why Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a big favorite of mine (even if I can’t fix the stupid elevator). While playing Amnesia’s shorter tangent, Justine, I wound up in what I fondly Read more
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So excited for Kindar’s Cure
A while back I won a signed edition of Kindar’s Cure from one of Michelle’s contests, and it finally arrived in the mail. Awesome~ Read more
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Personal Archetypes
According to Wikipedia, an archetype is defined as: A statement, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated. The Platonic philosophical idea, referring to pure forms which embody the fundamental characteristics of a thing. In Jungian psychology, archetypes refer to a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, Read more
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A different kind of plot: the Heroine’s Journey
The other night I was reading meta analysis on season seven of Supernatural (because that’s what good little grad students do instead of their homework), when I learned something entirely new. The analyzer kept referencing the Heroine’s Journey– and honestly, my eyes glazed right past it. After all, this was on Tumblr, which has a Read more
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