Ellen Saunders

That makes sense to me. I mean, my dad’s approach was less than helpful at times, but I did know it was coming from a place of wanting me to succeed. And eventually I realized he had some of the same issues, and he was trying to give me the only toolkit that had worked for him.

There’s a fine line between compassionate support and actively…[Read more]

Hi, Amanda. I have similar issues and thoughts. I put mine into writing in a different forum here (Questions, I think). I’ll focus on what you’re bringing up here.

Hill’s book is problematic for me in oh-so-many-ways. It also strikes me as being the Great-Great-Grandpappy of all Self-Help books.

It helps to remember that it was published in…[Read more]

I’m taking this class at either a the very best time or the worst time possible, I’m not sure.

I’m having a hard time working through the readings, mostly because the writing style is driving me crazy (I’ll get there). I’m finding it a bit amusing how much this is the Great-great-grandpappy of all self-help books — just about all of those I’ve…[Read more]

I shouldn’t say theory, per se, as much as ideas, like, what would the psychology of a group mind be like, and how would it react to different stressors and influences, including potential annihilation? (that’s one of my species).

A different species in my work: what if a culture/people, stressed by PTSD-inducing trauma, possessed a telepathic…[Read more]

Thanks for the link, RJ. Wow, the last person who edited that page *really* didn’t like NLP. LOL.

Mr. Barnes, I appreciate the comments. It would be interesting to explore NLP.

I’ve tried to fold a variety of psychological “stuff” into my work. In the current manuscript I’ve chosen to work with eight different species so communication is a barrier I’ve kind of hand-waved at with a “common” translator tongue and a couple variants of…[Read more]

In the last section of our reading, on faith, there’s a note from Mr. Barnes on the sentence:

“Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.”

The note highlights “mind” and says NLP would argue with this.
Don’t know what NLP is.

Uh, btw, our lights…[Read more]

In the last section of our reading, on faith, there’s a note from Mr. Barnes on the sentence:

“Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.”

The note highlights “mind” and says NLP would argue with this. Then a reference to “Lonnie Athans” later.

Don’t…[Read more]

Exactly. I fought that idea for a long time because I prefer writing novels.

“Make more mistakes faster. You’ll learn quicker.” Eric finally got that through my head, that a short story contains everything a novel does and takes a week (to a month) to write. Twelve to 52 opportunities to learn how to tell a story, beginning, middle and end.…[Read more]

I fought that idea for a long time because I like writing novels.
Finally Eric looked at me and said, essentially, “Make more mistakes faster. You’ll learn quicker.”
He explained that a short story contains everything a novel does and takes a week (to a month) to write. It will have mistakes. You will learn how to fix them. Twelve to 52…[Read more]

*waves* I’m Ellen. I’ve been a newspaper reporter, alumni magazine asst. editor, university PR staffer, small news service co-owner, massage therapist, nutrition education writer and a few other things.

Started doing NaNoWrimo in 2004, have written a bad draft nearly every year since, and a couple of scripts during Scriptfrenzy (excellent…[Read more]