Saturday, August 27, 2022
INTRO: IS THE PEN STILL MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD? By: Kimberly Thorn
Saturday, August 20, 2022
YOUR GUIDE TO BECOMING AN AMATEUR SLEUTH by Yvonne Saxon
First, assess your qualifications. Are you likeable? Are you easy to talk to, a good listener, caring? Do people open up to you? Are you intuitive? Do you have a “sixth sense” about things? Maybe you get a sense of what the Oxford New American Dictionary says “feels to be true even without conscious reasoning.” Just like Miss Marple, you’ll need these qualities to be a good sleuth.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
SITTING AND ROCKING BY THE SEASHORE by Maria Hudgins
Saturday, August 6, 2022
CHARACTERS, CONFLICT, AND THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR® - (Part II) by Michael Rigg
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Wow! How time flies when you have great
blog posts to read every week! Seems like only yesterday when last we chatted. But
it was eons ago—the beginning of June. We’re already in August!
My previous blog provided an overview of how I’ve come to understand the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) and its use as a tool for developing characters and conflict in your stories. Feel free to take a couple of minutes to review it by clicking here.
In the meantime, here’s a quick
refresher:
Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed the MBTI. According to Introduction to Type®, published by CPP, Inc., the MBTI springs from the psychological type theory of personality developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung to explain normal personality differences between healthy people.
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