The question is…do you have what it takes to be a Revolutionary War soldier? These are tense times between Britain and her American colonies. In Boston, tea has been dumped in the harbor and revolution is brewing in the streets. Militias are drilling in town squares and all around you...
How to Be a Revolutionary War SoldierNancy Goor
George Orwell called sports "war minus the shooting" and, in his novel "Blood Meridian," Cormac McCarthy argued that all games aspire to the conditions of war -- and that war itself is nothing short of humanity's destiny. It's easy to draw the parallels: Two armies march onto the ...
The twenty-foot container has departed to Montreal for its voyage across the Atlantic. However, the most valuable things we carry in our head and in our hearts. Great memories, unexpected discoveries, a new member of our family, and dear friendships that will all draw us back to Canada. ...
Amy Dunne inGone Girlby Gillian Flynn: As a manipulative, deceptive character who stages her own disappearance, Amy presents a deeply flawed yet fascinating antihero. Yossarian inCatch-22by Joseph Heller: Yossarian's attempts to maintain his sanity while others lose theirs in the face of war'...
It’s not hard to find the geographic center of a square and Mercer County is very nearly a square. Later, I lived inSaskatchewan, Canada. It’s another jurisdiction which presents little challenge when looking for its center. Saskatchewan’s motto, “Easy to draw; hard to spell”, tells...
I know I’m not the first to draw attention to the peculiar pack-conforming behaviours and fashion choices of the youth of today, and to be fair who am I to judge these attempts to belong – those who have read How Not to Get Hit will be all too aware of my own personal fashion ...
Peake had an unusual solution to writer’s block. Whenever he was stuck for a piece of dialogue to move a scene forward, he would draw a little sketch of a character’s head and ask himself “What kind of thing would that head say?”. ...
seems like a stand-in for so many disenfranchised Latino workers across the land; and Jason, an angry white supremacist whose main goal is to keep his job on the production line is similarly one-dimensional. Despite the play’s dramaturgical shortcomings, the cast manages to draw out the huma...
“Hmm . . .” I thought. “Maybe this isn't a complete waste of time.” In my experience, most writing projects like this don't work out, but when they show up, it's important to give them your best. After all, at the very least, it's good writingpractice. And, like always,...