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Episode 10:
Research Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mother F*****!
Today’s discussion is about…research. To paraphrase The Big Lebowski, research is the rug that ties the room together. We’ll talk about our process of research and show how we connect what we learn directly to our stories. Ideas lead to research and research leads to more ideas. “‘When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner
Stay creative and open to knew ideas. This will add intellect and aesthetics to your stories beyond anything you can imagine. We’ll show how specific things we research are fundamentally rooted in our stories and the development of our characters.
Fantastically Terrible Character or Creature
Today’s Fantastically Terrible Character or Creature are the Wakinyan from Thunderbirds, the flying ones. Wakinyan are huge winged beings that human beings cannot see because they are shielded by thick clouds. Thunder is made by the sound of their wings or voices, and lightning is created when they open and close their eyes. [read more…]
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Reference & Links
★ The Collected Works of Carl Jung
★ Understanding Personality: The 12 Jungian Archetypes
★ “Beyond Good and Evil” by Friedrich Nietzsche (free ebook)
★ “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” by Friedrich Nietzsche (free ebook)
★ “The Prince” by Niccolò Machiavelli (free ebook)
★ “The Masks of God Series” by Joseph Campbell
★ Joseph Campbell and “The Power of Myth” with Bill Moyers (interviews)
★ “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber
★ The Forgotten History of Hemp Cultivation in America
★ The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
★ Why William Randolph Hearst Provided the Platform to Create the Devastating Marijuana Prohibition?
★ Fire insurance mark
★ How the Great Fire of London created insurance
★ Kim Kardashian’s Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines
★ Why is Car Insurance Mandatory?
★ Sailing And Sinking The RMS Lusitania: A Century Of Lying America Into War
★ Propaganda of the Spanish–American War
★ Lie After Lie: What Colin Powell Knew About Iraq 15 Years Ago and What He Told the U.N.
★ Norse Mythology and Nazi Propaganda
★ Japanese propaganda during World War II