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Crossing the chasm: a leap of faith with your audience
Stories are innately more enjoyable when you trust your audience to cross a mental chasm: to draw the connections without being instructed on how to do so.
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Stuck: how to break free when your story snags
When your story gets stuck, try using the most basic of tricks to get unstuck: return to the fundamentals of the Process-Oriented approach.
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Drawbridge, CA: A Ghost In Our Midst
Drawbridge, CA is a ghost town hiding in plain sight not far from San Francisco, and in the shadow of Silicon Valley.
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My #viewfromtheoffice: a photo essay
An essay of photos taken during (and slightly before and after) my bicycle tours over the Golden Gate Bridge and around San Francisco.
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Pump up contrast! Stories (and people) love variety
Stories are not (necessarily) about “big” scenes. Instead, write scenes that work hard to tell your story and organize them for maximum contrast.
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