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Here’s the conclusion to Lee Stoops’ great series on The Unforgettable Image. Hope you’ve enjoyed it and Lee, thank you so much! It was a real pleasure having you. Identification of Meaning’s Roots, Planting Your Own Think of an unforgettable image. You don’t need to go re-read the scene right now – I’m banking on…
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Here’s the next installment from Lee Stoops. Been a crazy week, so apologies for the delay in posting! Building the Case for Changing the Way We Think We need to make sense of our perceptions. Imagination is the core of our human experience. It’s how we build memories and process. I’m not talking about imagination…
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Lee Stoops is back for week 3 of guest blogging: Understanding the Science of Imagination and Memory Memory and imagination are interchangeable in a way because of the way they inform one another. This is especially true in storytelling. And it’s kind of like a closed loop, a Mobius strip, with no clear chicken or…
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by guest blogger Lee Stoops: In our generation of images and scenes, we tend to recreate the things that have strongly affected us. I need to note something about cliché here. Something is labeled cliché when it affects (or has affected) a lot of people. The problem with cliché, and why it doesn’t work for…
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It is my great pleasure to have a series of five posts by the super smart and talented Lee Stoops. Part One: What is the Unforgettable Image in Story? Curiosity killed the cat? Well, curiosity got the cat to that place. But, maybe it was deficient imagination that killed the cat. Imagination. Are you sick of…
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Here is the audio version of the prologue to my latest novel,WRESTLING ALLIGATORS. It’s a ways off, but am looking forward to recording all of my novels. If you are a voiceover actor, musician, etc., check out Zen Pro Audio. Warren Dent will take good care of you. Amazing prices and stellar customer service. (update:…
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Last year, the great people at scissors and spackle published my short story MegaCool. I just finished recording it and you can compare the written and verbal versions. A big thank you to the Don LaFontaine Voice Over Lab. I rejoined SAG-AFTRA and the Lab has been a fun place to experiment, to practice narration for…
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ROAR SHACK A Partnership with Portuguese Artists Colony Presents: Home At Last Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 826LA 4 – 5:30 p.m. Note Location and Time Change!!! Thank God for books and music and things I can think about. –Daniel Keyes Roar Shack is a collective of writers and artists, and over the…
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It’s been a wild month. My application to attend TEDGlobal was accepted, so I will be in Edinburgh, Scotland mid-June. More on that in the coming weeks. I have been recording some of my work, but I also did one of Neruda’s love poems. I will be posting my own work in the coming weeks…
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Want to stand out with your writing? Or in general? Remove hyperbole from your writing and, for that matter, your speech. Have you noticed that people now seem to be incapable of speaking without it? We’ve become gushers of adjectives, adverbs, and expletives. A touch of hyperbole can strengthen a scene, but if it’s not…
Diane Sherlock 
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