Storyological 1.13 - THE ONE WITH THE SONIC CARROT

In which we discuss,

1. "Thandiwe’s Tokoloshe" by Nick Wood, African Monsters

2. "Appliances" by Nikki Alfar, Heat: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology, first published in the collection WonderLust.

along with, among other things...

• Bugs Bunny and Doctor Who, and other heroes who win with their wits. This is a blog post from Simpsons storyboard artist, Luis Escobar, and it’s fairly awesome.
• The Tokoloshe.
• Patricia McKillip, Dreams of Distant Shores
• The magic was inside of you all along.
• Watchmen.
• The best of the Cheese Man from “Restless”, the fourth season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

• Also, an analysis of the Cheese as Metaphor.

  • ”…many devoted Whedon fans argue emphatically that the cheese man means nothing cos Joss says so. “The cheese man means nothing. He is the only thing in the show that means nothing.” Ah ha! See? This can mean only one of two possibilities. Either Joss is trying to throw us off the scent... or he is in denial. So I have made it my mission to discover and reveal the secrets of the cheese guy. And I think I may have cracked it.”

• Advertising. Hyperreality. Fascination. Also. Jean Baudrillard.
• That one episode, YOU MUST UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, where we discussed “Six Things We Found During the Autopsy” by Kuzhali Manickavel.

Also.
You can find Nick Wood, here, and read more of Nikki Alfar here and here.

Also, also.

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Storyological 1.12 - HUNGER. SAINTS. BIRDS.

In which we discuss,

1. "Birdwoman" by Pemi Aguda, Omenana

2. "Saint of Rabbits" and "Inside the Witch's House" by Carmen Lau, The Girl Wakes

Along with, among other things...

• The Power of Grace

• Speaking of story structures, here are some illustrations of Kurt Vonnegut’s ideas on story structure.

• CC Finlay and some tweets

Almost all of these stories would be better with less summary and more scene. Externalize the action. Introduce a second character.

— CC Finlay (@ccfinlay) April 16, 2016

• Icarus

• Superman

  Tom says, “You’re crazy. Get the f— away from me!” I said, “Tom, listen. You’ve got to read this.” I gave him all my feelings about what we should do. I said, “The most important thing when you look at it is this: Make a love story. And prove a man can fly.” So he read it and he called me that night and said, “You know, there’s a lot we can do with this.”

• Hansel and Gretel.

• Some thoughts on writing flash fiction

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Kafka

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Storyological 1.11 - SOMETHING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH

In which we discuss

1. "The House of Aunts" by Zen Cho, Giganotosaurus

2. "Michael Doesn't Hate His Mother" by Marie Vibbert, Lightspeed

along with, among other things...

• Pontianak
• Last week’s podcast with “Hwang’s Billion Brilliant Daughters” and “The Husband Stitch”
• Jane Austen
• Literary monsters
• Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly. He’s angry.
• “I Shall Wear Midnight”
• Food, Glorious Food
• Will, in The Subtle Knife
• Sam J. Miller’s, “Clarion 2012: Every Brilliant Piece of Writing Advice”, including, among other things, start with the goosebumps
• Flowers in the Attic
• “Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth” by Michael Chabon
• I Kill Giants
• Holly Black, in an interview with To the Best of our Knowledge talking about literalizing feelings.
• Chesterton on fairy tales
• Gaiman paraphrasing Chesterton
• Ending of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail