http://www.storyinstitute.com Imagine, Enhance, & Grow Your Stories Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:58:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/10/17/short-story-the-sudden-makeover-mehreen-ahmed/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/10/17/short-story-the-sudden-makeover-mehreen-ahmed/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:05:05 +0000 Mehreen http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3901 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/10/17/short-story-the-sudden-makeover-mehreen-ahmed/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/03/02/short-story-macchiato-mehreen-ahmed/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/03/02/short-story-macchiato-mehreen-ahmed/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:03:16 +0000 Mehreen http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3591 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2011/03/02/short-story-macchiato-mehreen-ahmed/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/09/29/short-story-the-black-coat-mehreen-ahmed/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/09/29/short-story-the-black-coat-mehreen-ahmed/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:59:53 +0000 Mehreen http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3598 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/09/29/short-story-the-black-coat-mehreen-ahmed/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/27/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-38-dream-and-write/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/27/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-38-dream-and-write/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:36:31 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3311 Featured Quote: "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." William Faulkner   Featured Poems: There is No Frigate Like a Book By: Emily Dickinson   There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/27/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-38-dream-and-write/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/11/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-37-poems-and-prompts/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/11/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-37-poems-and-prompts/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:20:36 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3301 Featured Quotes: "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." Leo Buscaglia   "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust    Featured Poem: One Word Is Too Often Profaned By: Percy Bysshe Shelley   One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother; And pity from thee more dear Than that from another.   I can give not what men call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/11/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-37-poems-and-prompts/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-36-choices/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-36-choices/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:00:21 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3288 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/06/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-36-choices/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/19/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-35-still-listening/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/19/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-35-still-listening/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 01:17:23 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3278 Featured Quotes: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. By: Robert Frost   A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. By: Robert Frost    John shares some more of his favorite podcasts that help inspire and influence him.     Check out these great shows and sites:]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/19/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-35-still-listening/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/10/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-34-listen-then-write/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/10/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-34-listen-then-write/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 11:58:24 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3230 Featured Quote: Belief, by definition is an assent to a proposition. It is any cognitive content that is held true. It is some expression or a vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Thus, it defines some sort of an agreement with the world view. It may be unproven assertion based on some of the fundamental assumptions. Belief is a form of judging something to be true, intermediate between mere opinion and certain knowledge. To believe something in this sense is to judge that it is true by virtue of "a ground that is objectively insufficient but subjectively sufficient"; in mere opinion neither is sufficient, in knowledge both conditions are met.Myths which are believed in tend to become true.   By: George Orwell     John shares some of his favorite podcasts that help inspire and influence him. ]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/10/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-34-listen-then-write/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-33-believe-your-characters/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-33-believe-your-characters/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 03:31:37 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3223 Featured Quote: Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Edith Hamilton   Inspiration for this week's conversation: Six Characters in Search of an Author is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello    Featured Poem: The Computation By: John Donne   FOR my first twenty years, since yesterday, I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away ; For forty more I fed on favours past, And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last ; Tears drown`d one hundred, and sighs blew out two ; A thousand, I did neither think nor do, Or not divide, all being one thought of you ; Or in a thousand more, forgot that too. Yet call not this long life ; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal ; can ghosts die ?]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/05/02/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-33-believe-your-characters/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/20/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-32-search-for-your-voice/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/20/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-32-search-for-your-voice/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:46:31 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3216 ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com 615-431-WRIT (9748)    This week's episode was brought to you by Enchanted Travel Tales (www.enchantedtraveltales.com), bringing travel, magic, and fun to your holidays.    Featured Quotes: "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything." Henry Miller   "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice." William Shakespeare    Featured Poem: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" By: William Wordsworth   I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/20/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-32-search-for-your-voice/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/07/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-31-elementary-dear-whats-your-name/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/07/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-31-elementary-dear-whats-your-name/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:05:00 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3198 ramblingverser@storyinstitute.com 615-431-WRIT (9748)    This week's episode was brought to you by Enchanted Travel Tales (www.enchantedtraveltales.com), bringing travel, magic, and fun to your holidays.    Featured Quote: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915    Featured Short Story: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Adventure 4 - The Boscombe Valley Mystery By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Will you go?" "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at present."]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/04/07/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-31-elementary-dear-whats-your-name/feed/ 1 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/23/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-30-grab-a-newspaper-quick/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/23/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-30-grab-a-newspaper-quick/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:00:26 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3182 "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." ~ Bob Hope Headlines to help you with thoughts, ideas a provide realistic writing prompts: "Run over on a Florida beach: can't Americans walk anywhere at all?" "No Flat for Cats" "App Tells You Whether Your Date is a 'Keeper' or 'Crazy'" "Talking about a stinky subject" Look up these headlines, of merely use them to help you come up with subjects for your storylines. What direction will you choose? Have you found other stories out there? Share them here or elsewhere, but write and enjoy.]]> http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/23/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-30-grab-a-newspaper-quick/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/14/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-29-remember-write/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/14/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-29-remember-write/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:58:50 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3147 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/14/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-29-remember-write/feed/ 0 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/08/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-28-reflection-and-knowledge/ http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/08/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-28-reflection-and-knowledge/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:05:26 +0000 Story Institute http://www.storyinstitute.com/?p=3125 http://www.storyinstitute.com/2010/03/08/story-institute-ramblingverser-episode-28-reflection-and-knowledge/feed/ 0 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