Just another cool reason why I love writing Superheroes in Prose: I get to write unbelievably cool sentences like “Be careful around the Brain Tank.”
Sevan Paris
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Cindy and I just started watching the first season of Once Upon a Time. I have no idea how the rest of the season delivers, but if the first five episodes are any indication, it should do said delivery pretty freaking well.
When it comes to audience, there are three purposes of story: to help us understand life, to provide escapism, or to give us some combination of the two. Once Upon a Time tells the audience in the pilot that story can help people understand life, and then each episode examples that idea by mirroring the contemporary storyline (the A Plot) with fairy tale metaphor (the B Plot). It’s a meta approach to storytelling that I totally dig, and I’m excited to see what sort of fun things they’re going to do with it.
Sevan Paris
I attended a NACADA conference in Nashville last weekend where, like many conferences, I had to wear a name tag. For some reason, NACADAians have been really bad about introducing themselves, plunging their hand into mine for a handshake, and–before I can offer my name–they look at my name tag and give me a general, “Hello, Se-VAN, nice to meet you.”. To which I reply, “My name is 7, actually. Like the number.”
I’m going to request a name tag with the number 7 for future conferences. Then, at least people will pause with confusion before an incorrect enunciation, thereby giving me the opportunity to actually say my name.
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