The Red Brick Store

I’m like an autistic person who learns to read the emotions of others only through mapping the human face. I find the wheels and gears, the organs and veins of stories, and watch them work.

February 28th, 2010 | Tags: antagonist, Avatar, dramatic need, fiction, goal, protagonist, Sopranos, structure | Category: Sunstone | Comments (9)

How might the history of childcare have been different had the cell phone been invented earlier?

February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: cell phone, children, fiction | Category: Sunstone | Comments (7)

Forgiveness is under intense debate right now, but I saw an interesting definition arising from Whitney’s documentary.

February 1st, 2010 | Tags: Ferrell, forgiveness, Jentz, Power, protagonist, Whitney | Category: Sunstone | Comments (17)

Sunstone invites writers to enter the 2010 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.

January 25th, 2010 | Category: Sunstone | Comments (6)

How many musical dreams have we suffered through in order to understand the roots of a farm animal’s anxieties?

November 17th, 2009 | Category: Sunstone | Comments (9)

Jan Shipps, noted author and long-time scholar on Mormonism, will be speaking on Tuesday, November 17th, at the Salt Lake City Main Library. This special lecture is sponsored by Sunstone and is free to the public. Ms. Shipps will be reflecting on the field of religious studies, and how the advances and techniques of this [...]

November 14th, 2009 | Category: Red Brick Store, Sunstone | Comments (5)

The October 19 issue of the New Yorker is very interesting from a writing point of view. The most provocative article to me was “The Gossip mill,”by Rebecca Mead, which takes the reader inside Alloy. a company that produces best-sellers by committee. They’re the minds behind the Traveling Pants and Gossip Girl series. The first [...]

October 27th, 2009 | Tags: Alloy, committee, Gossip Girl, New Yorker, rag doll, story, Traveling Pants | Category: Sunstone | Comments (31)

This Sunday, Bill Bradshaw, a professor of biology at BYU, will speak on the relationship between science and religion.

October 9th, 2009 | Category: Sunstone | Comments (4)

Corianton pulls out all the stops, throws them away, and pounds the keys for all it’s worth.

September 28th, 2009 | Category: Sunstone | Comments (8)