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The Concept of “Normal” Killed Fiction Writing for Me

There are no normal people. There is no normal interior life or thinking. There are no normal attitudes. There is no weird. There is no…

Feb 13, 2024

The Concept of “Normal” Killed Fiction Writing for Me

Feb 13, 2024

Literary Character Development Through Psychoanalysis

Character Psychology for Fiction Writing — Mindset and Motivation

Feb 3, 2024

Literary Character Development Through Psychoanalysis

Feb 3, 2024

When It’s OK Not to Help Someone

“I just want to help people.” You hear it all the time, and it sounds inauthentic. As though there were generic people and all help is…

Oct 28, 2023

When It’s OK Not to Help Someone

Oct 28, 2023

AI: The New Plantation Owners

It wouldn’t be unfair to say AI learning has become the act of stealing someone else’s insights, labor, and creativity so that we don’t…

Sep 27, 2023

AI: The New Plantation Owners

Sep 27, 2023

The Future Depends on the Promise of the 60s

We’ve reached a point where even those who have lived through the 60s and 70s either don’t recall or weren’t paying attention to the…

Sep 23, 2023

The Future Depends on the Promise of the 60s

Sep 23, 2023

A Better Story Structure: Making a Skeleton Jig for Storytelling

We’re generally presented with three types of story structure diagrams. One is linear and abstract like Freytag’s Pyramid (rising action…

Sep 9, 2023

A Better Story Structure: Making a Skeleton Jig for Storytelling

Sep 9, 2023

Why Are Religious Conservatives So Wrong?

Sometimes we’re wrong, even if we’re right. Anthony (“Tony”) Campolo is an American sociologist, Baptist pastor, and spiritual advisor to…

Jun 4, 2023

Why Are Religious Conservatives So Wrong?

Jun 4, 2023

The Adult Cell Phone — It’s Time

Cell phones have become bloated, insecure adware that dominate our lives rather than facilitate our best intentions for ourselves.

Jun 2, 2023

The Adult Cell Phone — It’s Time

Jun 2, 2023

Scenarios for the End of the World

Pick your level, from beginner to challenging to hard to impossible—only this is no video game, and the scoreboard is human lives.

Apr 2, 2023

Scenarios for the End of the World

Apr 2, 2023

Johnny Cash Didn’t Play With 3 Chords and Eddie Van Halen Didn’t Make it on Talent

We have 2 theories of greatness. It’s easier than it looks or you’re born able to do it.

Sep 13, 2021

Johnny Cash Didn’t Play With 3 Chords and Eddie Van Halen Didn’t Make it on Talent

Sep 13, 2021

Asher Black

Asher Black

Asher Black is a storyteller, musician, & karateka who splits his time between the Catskill mountains and the foliated Brooklyn neighborhood of Walt Whitman..

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