Character Motivation

What makes you do the things that you do? What makes you reach for that cookie when you are on a diet? Or play that game when you should be sleeping? What really motivates us to act? What motivates someone to murder? Recently, I finished watching the Netflix docuseries "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron …

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The Writer & Heartbreak

My heart broke recently.  If my life was a book, the reader would have seen it coming before me.  They might have been screaming at me to turn around. Most of my friends did.  They saw the doom on the horizon and braced themselves.  But, I am stubborn  and kept sailing toward it. Right off the edge.

Sunday Afternoon Sketch

The Counter  The sound of something crashing, even something small, echoed in the main atrium of the department store. Mindy had only walked away from the makeover for a moment to help a young woman. In that hair of a second, the customer had taken it upon herself to add some eye-shadow to the areas …

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