List: Writing and Literature | Curated by Odin Halvorson

Jan 19, 2023
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Writing and LiteratureMy thoughts on writing, literature, tropes, and more! Let me put my MFA to work for you!
Odin Halvorson
Kenning Your Way Through Writer’s BlockContrasts are a powerful method of constructing new ideas and new trains of thought.
Jan 19, 2023
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Jan 19, 2023
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Socrates Café
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Sir Herbert Read’s 7-Steps to AnarchismA “sevenfold system” to change our approach to changing society.
Dec 31, 2022
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Dec 31, 2022
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Socrates Café
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How to Become a Hero (or just be a better human being)The famous mythologist, Joseph Campbell, has the answer to becoming a better person. And it only takes two steps!
Jan 7, 2023
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Jan 7, 2023
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The Writing Cooperative
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The Rose Within: A Personal Reflection on "The Little Prince""Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Aug 9, 2018
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Aug 9, 2018
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Publishous
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Become a Self-Directed LearnerIf we wait for someone else to manage our lives we’re always going to be falling short of our aspirations
Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018
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The Writing Cooperative
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To Write Big, Start SmallLearn the art of weaving description and your reader will never leave.
Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018
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The Writing Cooperative
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Solarpunk: The Fiction of the FutureThere are limitless options for storytelling, if you set your mind to it.
Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018
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The Writing Cooperative
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Richard Wright: The Best American HaikuWith Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death.
Sep 16, 2018
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Sep 16, 2018
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The Writing Cooperative
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The Importance of RejectionSomething about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider.
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
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How National Novel Writing Month Changed My LifeAble to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment.
Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018
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Predict
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Making Futurism Work for YouThe Solarpunk ideal is a resistance to the idea that things are ever “just the way they are.” We can always make changes for the better.
Nov 28, 2018
Nov 28, 2018
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The Writing Cooperative
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How to Get Your Story ReadAdvice from a weary editor who is on your side.
Jan 13, 2019
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Jan 13, 2019
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Writing Beyond Your GenreHow a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft.
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
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The Startup
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Why We Need Hopeful StoriesOur salvation is in the hands of our storytellers.
May 24, 2019
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May 24, 2019
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Publishous
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“Becoming Superman” The Book All Writers Need to Readand how the work of J. Michael Straczynski came into my life
Aug 16, 2019
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Aug 16, 2019
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The Writing Cooperative
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Succeeding in Your Creative Writing MFAsome tips and tricks from the eye of the storm
Jan 29, 2020
Jan 29, 2020
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A Hundred and Fifty Bucks a WeekThe Problem with Democrats (and politicians in general)
Oct 1, 2019
Oct 1, 2019
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Socrates Café
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Odin Halvorson
Potentia Innocentiae: The Power of InnocenceCo-winner of the 2nd Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 2019
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We’re Going on a Stag HuntA storytelling approach to economics
Oct 11, 2019
Oct 11, 2019
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Predict
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Solarpunk in a Time of Coronavirushow the first global event of our age highlights the need for a new vision of the future
Mar 21, 2020
Mar 21, 2020