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The Last of Us vs Game of Thrones
You Win or You Die
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Colin Corrigan
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Free Your Radicals
How I Won a Nobel Prize, and how to harness your characters’ ideologies
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Colin Corrigan
I'm Worried. Are You Worried?
Colm Tóibín, Five Bridges, and how to harness your characters' preoccupations.
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Colin Corrigan
Explore/Protect
The never-ending potential of the pursuit of happiness
Serious Literary Aspirations
The World is Not Beyond Satire
Attachment in Severance
What's with those baby goats?
Dancing on Broken Glass
Or: How to Slice Open Your Story's Arteries and Let Hope Spill Free
Christmas Spirit
... And How to Generate Atmosphere in Your Stories
Open Hearts
Nobody Wants This, Except Joanne and Noah, Who Want This a LOT!
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Love/Pain: Attraction and Repulsion in Intermezzo
Investigating the Magnetism of Sally Rooney and her characters
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Kinetic Kamala
The Story Energies Election Special
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Colin Corrigan
It Follows
You can run, but you can't escape Story.
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Colin Corrigan
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