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    Research How to Use Tarot for Story, Scenes, Characters, and More with Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

    The tarot is a visual, symbolic and metaphorical tool that offers a unique and fun way to approach character development, setting, conflict, and plot. In this workshop, participants learn to use the tarot for blasting through frustrating writer’s blocks, uncovering character quirks and secrets...
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    Craft Daring the Thresholds of Story with Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

    A threshold is any point of entering. The line between here and there. Also called limen, it is any point or line or place between what is and what will be, or between what was and what is now, often that defining moment of no return. Thresholds are important in the structure of story and are...
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    Research Using Myths and Fairy Tales for Powerful Storytelling with Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

    The basis of modern storytelling whether in print or on the screen, lies deeply rooted in the mythological tradition. Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans, Thor, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Snow White and the Huntsman, Once Upon a Time, Grimm—all popular books, movies and TV series that have...
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    Research How to Use Tarot for Story, Scenes, Characters, and More with Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

    The tarot is a visual, symbolic and metaphorical tool that offers a unique and fun way to approach character development, setting, conflict, and plot. In this workshop, participants learn to use the tarot for blasting through frustrating writer’s blocks, uncovering character quirks and secrets...