It’s a sweltering night in a modest Southern Californian home. The sound of coyotes and crickets penetrate the small kitchen as two brothers awkwardly reunite in their mother’s house.
One, an ivy league graduate, has come for some peace to work on a screenplay for a Hollywood studio; the other…
The two-ship fleet searching for the fabled Northwest Passage has hit a block, literally, a massive block of ice, damaging HMS Erebus’s propeller and cutting her efficiency by half.
It’s September 1846, and the European hunt for the illusory marine trade route has been going for nearly 350 years, since…
On Day 17 of the Tour de France (Le Tour), so close to the end of the race, a rider waits at the foot of the Col de la Madeleine to help his leader up the dramatic assent.
Jens Debusschere, former Belgian National champion, is riding for the first time…
In the 18th Century, Scotland was a land without a leader. James VI of Scotland had become James I of England. The country was Crippled by debt and blighted by poverty. Scotland was a country without a parliament.
Yet out of this small country emerged a ferocious movement of innovative…
When you hear the word myth, what do you think? An epic Homer text or a Euripides play? Do you think of a 10-hour Lord of The Rings trilogy? Something enormous and impenetrable. I find it daunting to think in terms of creating something that huge.
Since wooing the world with Toy Story in 1995, Pixar Animation Studios have produced over 24 feature films. In 2018 they averaged a box office average of $650M per film, the highest take per film of any studio in Hollywood. …
You don’t need to be an author or scriptwriter to benefit from learning how to use storytelling in business. The much-loved guru of mythology, Joseph Cambell, believes in the ability of even the tiniest fairy tale to contain the powers to inspire you and stroke your soul. …
On the sixth floor of Harrods Department store in London, you can experience a half-hour consultation with master perfumer Roja Dove (that’s Roger with a j) for a respectable fee of £150. …
Have you heard the term ‘safe space? In the corporate world, it means creating an environment where everyone is free to contribute ideas without the fear of being lambasted by others about being wrong, stupid, or lacking in knowledge/experience. Writer’s groups promote the same concept.
It’s a nice concept but…
