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S26E8 – When in Doubt, Leave it Out

November 25, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they’re writing nice sentences, even if it isn’t adding up to much. – James Patterson

S23E9 – Choose Your Adventure

August 30, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

I wish it need not have happened in my time.

So do I and so do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. – J.R.R. Tolkein

S23E8 – Reverse, Reverse! Telling a Story Backwards

August 26, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange

S23E6 – Structuring a Paradigm Shift

August 19, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

S23E5 – Using Amnesia in a Story Plot

August 16, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. – Margaret Peters

S23E4 – Structure with Recursion

August 12, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility. – Andrzej Sapkowski

S23E3 – Rashomon Stories

August 9, 2021 Leigh Hull 0 Comments

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. – Albert Einstein

S23E2 – Parallel Structure

August 5, 2021 Ley Esses 0 Comments

You wizards are all the same. You speak nonsense while making wise and meaningful faces. – The Witcher

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. – The Doctor (Doctor Who)

S6E4 – When to Kill a Character

January 13, 2020 Ley Esses 1 Comment

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. – Alfred Hitchcock