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Steven Barnes posted an update 9 years, 6 months ago
@mulllet –if you’ve looked into NLP, you may have questions about how you might apply it to your writing. THAT is a fascinating subject it would be fun to go into!
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Steven Barnes replied to the topic in the forum Steven Barnes 9 years, 6 months ago
I think that you’ve touched on a possible story subject, dealing with the difficulty we have changing our minds about things. For instance, choose someone who believes something YOU believe about a politicized subject. Show them as being critical of the inability of a friend or co-worker to shift their beliefs. But then show how our protagonist…[Read more]
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Steven Barnes posted a new activity comment 9 years, 6 months ago
“My Voice will go with you” is a good book on the topic. The point being that stories are trances. Studying the formal structure thereof might be a good approach, if you have any natural interest in the subject.
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Thanks! I’ll look into grabbing a copy
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Steven Barnes posted an update 9 years, 6 months ago
@coreknell –exactly. I don’t judge people by an external standard. I judge them by how they function within the social tissue they were born into. An abolitionist in the the 1850s South is a hero. An abolitionist in 2010 is sort of “well, of course.”
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Steven Barnes posted an update 9 years, 6 months ago
@mulllet Tibbs was definitely going further than Gillespie–but you have to grasp that he had been doing that his entire life. He represents black America in that sense. Gillespie represents Southerners–a good man who has been brainwashed by a very bad system. It is HARD to change. Most cannot. I give him credit for the amount of change he…[Read more]
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Steven Barnes posted an update 9 years, 6 months ago
@mulllet –Hi! Neuro Linguistic Programming is a discipline that examines communication within and between human beings. It has some very powerful tools, and some of them are probably more efficient and effective than Hill’s emotionalized repetition approach. Lonnie Athens is a criminologist who wrote a book called “Why They Kill” in which he…[Read more]
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Steven Barnes posted a new activity comment 9 years, 6 months ago
Greetings! Have you ever incorporated your NLP into your writing? An investigation of Milton Erickson’s linguistic patterns would probably fascinate you.
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I’ve only a glancing knowledge of NLP, but it was intriguing. I’ll definitely look into linguistic patterns. Thanks!
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“My Voice will go with you” is a good book on the topic. The point being that stories are trances. Studying the formal structure thereof might be a good approach, if you have any natural interest in the subject.
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Thanks! I’ll look into grabbing a copy
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Steven Barnes posted an update 9 years, 6 months ago
@mulllet that “1 in 3” is “contact” with the justice system: arrest, trial, conviction, incarceration, over a lifetime. While still bad, its not as bad as “1 in three currently in prison”
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I mischaracterized that statistic, thank you. What you said is what I meant to say. It’s painfully mind-boggling, and I’m having trouble wrapping my head around what that does to a community. No. Having trouble wrapping my heart around what that does to a community.
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No prob. and yes, it is devastating. Part of the hole we’re climbing out of!
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Steven Barnes replied to the topic in the forum Steven Barnes 9 years, 6 months ago
Tibbs was a cop, and cops routinely place themselves in jeopardy to solve crimes in mystery films. The reason I think they are closer to equal is that Gillespe extends to Tibbs consideration that he has never given to a black man in his entire life. Never. IMO, unless you grasp how hard that was for him, how far he had to stretch, you miss…[Read more]
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Steven Barnes replied to the topic in the forum Steven Barnes 9 years, 6 months ago
We strongly suggest NOT writing novels until you’ve sold 5-10 short stories. Much more efficient and effective in building skill and understanding of the business.
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Steven Barnes replied to the topic in the forum Steven Barnes 9 years, 6 months ago
I think it interesting that you see Tibbs as going 90% while Gillespe only went 10%. I’m not at all sure of that, but I think you could defend your position. Tell me: what would have been more equitable, in your mind?
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Steven Barnes started the topic in the forum Welcome to Mastery Plus 9 years, 6 months ago
This site will work in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of questions you ask, the degree that you network, and the energy you put into your own work. Write at least ONE SENTENCE PER DAY. Get moving in the direction of your dreams, however fuzzily defined they may be. The rest will come in time!
