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Do You Trick Your Dragons Or Do You Fight Them?

As we all know, Bilbo tricked his dragon. (At least to start with.) But then, it’s not like a hobbit would beat a dragon in a fair fight. No one would. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of reptilian metaphor for the amygdala. You know that ‘lizard’ part of your brain? You can’t fight [...]

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Spell Casting Lessons From The Movie Biz

There is a little trick I picked up in film school that has found many, many applications in my life beyond merely breaking writer’s block… Which was the reason I was initially taught it. I am going to share the trick with you but it strikes me that there are actually numerous parallels between film [...]