Music fit for life — Record numbers of people are turning to new hobbies. Music is getting a lot of us through these dark times. Want to better understand one of the largest music genres so you enjoy it more? Want to maybe take it a step further and join the huge Doom Metal community…

Scenes, plots, structure, cliches, punctuation, and more — Want an easy go-to list for writing narrative? Well, here you go. I have found that, from time to time, it’s useful to suggest one or more of these links to students or clients. Have at it! Elements of a complete scene Dwight Swain’s Techniques of the Selling Writer is good to buy if you can, and if you can’t, there are summations…

Tantric sex has been used as a powerful tool meant for (among other things that may surprise you) the transformation of the psyche and body since ancient times. According to the claims of this form of yoga, we have at our disposal a pleasurable way to evolve ourselves through masturbation…

How people with unstable self-esteem treat you and why — Understanding Self-Esteem-People It becomes eventually clear that, all along, their relationship with you has been primarily about enhancing their sense of themselves. They’ve been using you to get that dopamine high. Self-Esteem People don’t love you. They don’t love anyone. Not even themselves. They can’t help it. Almost everything in their lives…

As a longtime aura viewer, I noticed this pattern — Protective Layer Around the Self As an aura viewer, I discovered something which I call the “scurf rim.” I’m using the descriptive term that has become somewhat popular due to the pseudo-science of iridology. Though iridology has been thoroughly debunked, I find the terminology useful to steal for this purpose. A scurf rim is the…

Shaking up the default expectations of humanity — Messing with your mind Obviously nearly all popular narratives will always be about people. That’s what you’ll write, because readers get excited about suspense regarding whether the protagonist will achieve his or her goals. But if you like to play around outside the box in your stories, let’s release humanocentrism. …

Characters embody traits that you should familiarize yourself with — Why Not Just Study Writing Craft? A great way to create characters and the subtext within their interactions is to study psychology. You don’t need a degree, but take advantage of the material of experts writing books and putting out videos, such as Richard Grannon on codependency and Sam Vaknin on narcissism, for example. We all…

Brainstorming, Submitting, Joining Movements, Being Part of the Scene, and Changing the Conversation — How Can You Get Started Writing Something without a Formula? Writing ideas can come from your dreams, from trying to approximate a mood half remembered, from spontaneously writing from a trance-like induced dream, not knowing where you’ll go, line by line, just settling into the delight of play, not trying to say anything with an agenda, but starting and letting…

The clash of the past and present — Imperialism created supernatural fears True Gothic fiction always includes the clashing relationship of the present time with foundational history, usually in relationship to the occult, to make a statement about society: that’s one of the genre’s most core definitions. The development of that type of fiction arose when England’s trade partners, slaves, harems, colonies…