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Understanding Abney’s Effect in the Creation of Fiction

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 26th, 2008  
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The [psychological and biological] phenomenon whereby when a large area is suddenly illuminated, the light seems to appear first in the center of the patch (rather than appearing all at once) and then spreads outwards towards the edges. When the light is extinguished, the edges disappear first and the center last.
–Dictionary of Theories page 2–
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The Most Important Fiction Lesson I Ever Learned…

Posted by Josh in June 7th, 2008  
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…came to me almost seven years after I left the BFA program at Bowling Green State University here in Ohio. And it came from a Hollywood writer, director and producer I happen to have a great deal of respect for–David Milch (Deadwood, John from Cincinnati, NYPD Blue, etc.).
In his book “Deadwood,” he talks [...]

Getting Into Knockemstiff

Posted by Josh in March 21st, 2008  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books, Ohio     Tags: , , , , , ,

Something you may not know about Ohio is that we’ve produced some really great writers. The only problem is that most of them aren’t popular. There is a huge difference between being a great writer and being a popular writer. Very few writers are both and most that are, aren’t both very [...]

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