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Ok. I’ve proven we can apply the Hero’s journey to the flash fiction story.  I’m done with that.  Here’s new stuff according to Ma and the book she is currently reading.(The photo is me in India with my two friends. Maybe I’ll talk about that some time….) Ideas for story structure: I’m reading “Save the Cat” by Blake Snyder.  In my … Read More

    “JUST IN TIME FOR THE OLD MAN’S PASSING” is now live even though there is one mistake.  See if you can find it.  I edited it out on the draft but it popped up again.  Oh well.  It wants to ride along for the journey. http://www.foliateoak.com/kaye-linden.html This is the story we’ve been working on with the Hero’s Journey … Read More

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Today we look at the application of stage four of the hero’s journey template with a flash fiction story. (Disclosure: This particular story has been accepted by Foliate oak Literary for publication in January.) We have covered the first three steps in the first part of the flash: Just in Time for the Old Man’s Passing by Kaye Linden “My … Read More

Refusal of the Call Step three of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey is the “Refusal of the Call.” For the last two blogs I have adapted the steps of the hero’s journey to my flash story “Just in time for the Old Man’s Passing.”  This story was just accepted for publication for the January 2014 issue of the Folio Oak Literary … Read More

Source cited: “The Fab Ten of Online Ed” by GraceAnne A. DeCandido, American Libraries, December 2009, p31. Prompt for today:  Who are these women watching???     Create tension with an approaching character or characters involved in action.   “Ten things you need to know about online classes, with a little help from the Beatles” (by GraceAnne A. DeCandido) 1. The Long … Read More

The Hero’s Journey Structure We are all heroes on a journey For the next twelve blog writings, I will challenge the writer in me to apply the twelve steps of the hero’s journey (Joseph Campbell) to the structure of the flash fiction story.  I invite you to share this journey. The hero’s journey structure is taken from life.  Each of … Read More

Snake Eyes Another flash fiction Ma tale by Kaye linden 377 words more or less…   After ninety-nine years, Ma has fractured a hip.  The old trickster bats her lashes and pulls on the bell.  “Get me out of this bed,” she shouts.  A nurse pops her head into the room. “I got this,” Ma’s sister Possum says. “That’s the … Read More

I have tried fifty times to write my mother’s story.  Fifty times I have written three more chapters and fifty times I stopped half-way.  I have been unable to write the commercial novel about the World War Two era, when a German refugee living in Palestine married an Australian soldier, moved to Australia and found he was engaged to another … Read More