Collections of My Work

Story Theory

Psychology Theory

Poetry

Music

Photography

Artwork

Short Stories
Screenplays
& Novels

Like most, I have many facets

This is where they all come together.

A sampling of my creative works through the years

2006

Melanie's Writing Tip Newsletter
A new issue every month!

New Photographs
An eight mile hike completely around Jenkinson Lake

New Photographs
A walk through an abandoned Gold Rush Era Apple Orchard

New Photographs
Taken during a hike along Park Creek at Jenkinson Lake

Melanie's Photo Gallery
All the photographs I've published on the web

New Photographs
Taken in the Sierra Nevada, Fleming Meadow

2005

A Novelist's Bag of Tricks

A Screenwriter's Bag of Tricks

New Photographs
Taken in and round my mountain town

2004

Blowing the Bubble
Bubble Dynamics of Storytelling

Character Arc 101

Revealing Your Goal

The Genre Trap

Beating Writer's Block

4 Essential Plot Points

Genre - Act by Act

The Attributes of Age

Between The Lines
A new Step-by-Step screenwriting software program.

Master Storyteller Module
An update of the course for improving writing skills.

2003

Be a Story Weaver - NOT a Story Mechanic!

Story Structure for Passionate Writers

Creating Characters from Plot

Creating Characters from Scratch

Both Sides of the Thematic Argument

Tribute to Ansel Adams
A few nature images in the style of the Master Photographer

Strange Fragments
An ongoing compendium of the odd thoughts that crop up during my day

2002

Mountain Storm (mp3)
Just bought a Fostex VF08 multi-track recorder and threw together this New Age style song to try it out

Blue Gas
Tricky little guitar piece for my next album.  Presented in Real Player audio.

The Grouse Mountain Expedition
Photo essay of a recent killer hike.

A Mini Concert Video
Performance of a short set of songs on guitar

Eternal Flame Video
Performance of the Bangles' hit song

Blue Gas Video
Performance of an original instrumental guitar piece

The Rut
A story I'm working on for an upcoming book of shorts and unfinished pieces called "Fragments."

2001

Squirrel Jam
Percussion mix

Whirlwind
Short original song

Bop
Percussion mix

Structure Vs. Passion
Audio program exploring the relationship between logistic meaning and passionate experience.

StoryWeaver
A question & answer software product for intuitive writers, designed as a step-by-step guide from initial inspiration to completed sequential treatment of a story.

Lilith & Eve
A photo/computer creation capturing the two sides of woman's spirit.

2000

20 Hour Writing Course
20 hours of video on one CD ROM documenting the entire story theory course.  Based on the 12 week course I teach through UCLA.

2 Hour Plot Class
Soundtrack of the plot class from my 12 week UCLA course on story theory.

Dramatica Tips & Tricks book
A collection of essays on the Dramatica theory and software

The Writers Channel
Video & Audio programs based on my Dramatica Theory of story (presented here in Real Player Format)

Beatle Juice
An original song that's just "fab."

1999

Mental Sex
3 audio CD set taped live of me and my partner Chris describing the Mental Sex concept that grew out of our story theory work.

Writing with the Story Mind
One hour audio program on the model of the mind hidden in the structure of stories - and how to use it to create stories.

Dramatica Software Companion
4 1/2 CD ROM of video demonstrations describing how to use the Dramatica software creatively.

Dramatica Theory Basics
2 1/2 hour audio program exploring key points of the Dramatica theory of story.

1998

Horny Toad
Really out there!

Mental Relativity Book
A collection of essays describing the theory of mind I co-discovered in the structure of stories.

1997

Mental Relativity Fundamentals ~ Part Two
A Conceptual Tour of the Mental Relativity Model

Mental Relativity Fundamentals ~ Part One
Essential concepts

Mental Relativity Algorithms ~ Part One
An Introduction to Quad Structure

How the Model of Mental Relativity was Developed
History of the effort to discover the mental equivalent of DNA

A Visual Representation of the Model of Mental Relativity
Gaining some perspective

Dry Spell - Chapter Two - "Travis and the Flood"
The latest "chapter" from an original screenplay

2 a.m., Can't Sleep, Rain on the Way...
Poem written due to insomnia

The Comic Flea
Poem about the Great Machine itself!

All You Love Is Need
Poem about a dependency on addition

The Company Song
Poem about Cogs in the Great Machine

The Cosmic Flea,Too
Poem about hero worship

Mental Sex - The Truth About Cats & Dogs
The Male and Female Minds of Animals

Mental Sex and the Blustery Day

Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Next Tuesday
The built-in bias of how men look at women

Lulladie
Poem about the time we waste

June
Working on a couple of silly songs

For Diana
Original classical music composition in memoriam

April
Piano sketch for a new song and my daughter practices her science project dissertation 

1996

Squirrel Jam
A midi ditty, courtesy of two frisky rodents.

Flip Flop
A midi tune reminiscent of the end of a bitter-sweet comedy movie.

West Winds
A midi rendition of a song I wrote decades ago, but only recently recorded

Story Theory & the Real World
Ambiguous masterworks.

The Misadventures of Melanie
A multimedia comic strip

Dry Spell - Chapter one - "The Pit"
First installment of my sci-fi thriller

A Computer Doodle:
Just a stupid sketch without a home.

Pink Blues
Woe is Woman

Hearts (Original Piano Sketch)
The original melody on which the above version is based

Hearts (Full Orchestration)
An original song in the style of Enya

In Verse
Running in the proper Circles

Mental Relativity:
Problems and inequities.

Mental Relativity:
Triangulating Reason and Emotion.

Mental Relativity:
Preference, Emphasis, Priority, and Importance.

December
3rd edition of my book, A New Theory of Story Is published.

September
Situation, Circumstance, State of Being, Sense of Self, Part 2

September
Situation, Circumstance, State of Being, Sense of Self, Part 1

July  
Mental Relativity - Practical Problem Distribution & Disbursement

July
Mental Relativity - Shadow Meanings & Mental Phasing

February
Lateral Evolutions,  Part 2, - and, Practical Relationships

February
New Data Compression technology - and, Lateral Evolution, Part 1

January
The Eternal Paradox and the Never Ending Helix

January
Spatial and Temporal minds today - and, global consciousness

January
5 minutes of music followed by Mental Relativity - The history of Spatial and Temporal minds

1995

February
Beyond Unified Field: Subjective Relativity

February
Beyond Unified Field: Dynamic Order and Chaos

February
Black Holes and Light; Male and Female Views of Dynamics

February
Male and Female Views of Dynamics (concludes)

October
Piano Jam - Original Tunes & Foolin' Around

November
Recording of a Class in Mental Relativity
- Problem Solving & Justification

November
Mental Relativity Class Concludes

November
Piano Jam Session (Doesn't get good until about 6 minutes in...)

Melssong
An original ditty I've chosen as my theme song.

Gazpacho Missionary Band
Midi song

Flip Flop
Quick midi sketch

Roto
Quick midi sketch

West Winds
Quick midi sketch

Blues Too
Quick midi sketch

Henry VIII
Quick midi sketch

Shanty
Quick midi sketch

1994

June
My daughter describes her head injury, age 12

June
Mental Relativity - Peach Trees, Relationships, and Binary Switches

June 
Mental Relativity - Tendency & Probability

July
Mental Relativity - Anti-Mass, Negative Space, Disenergy, and Reverse Time

July
Mass, Energy, Space, and Time as Combinations of Waves
(in terms of trigonometric functions)

July
Space, Time, and the Size of Mind Constant

July
PMS, Depression, and Wave Forms; How to Talk to Your Doctor

July
Forrest Gump: Being There; Doing That

August
Cartoon Characters as a Symbolic Emotional Language

August
Waveforms, Binaries, & the Unified Field

August
Waveforms, Binaries, & the Unified Field, concludes

August
Can, Need, Want, & Should and the Relationships Among Them

August
Can, Need, Want & Should Applied to Relationships Among People

August
Stretchy Time

August
Inspiration from a Dream about Pair Relationship Equations

September
Exploration into Subjective Relativity begins

November
Subjective Time, Temporal Resolution, Emotional Phasing

Early Works

Songs I wrote way back when
presented in Real Player format

Shining (3:46)
Self illumination.

Saturday Morning (2:13)
Where do you want to grow today?

On The Streets (2:01)
Depaved.

Voices In The Wind (3:14)
Blow in my ear.

Almost Home (2:07)
But not quite.

Temple Of The Lost (:52)
You can't get here from there.

Maynard G. Krebbs (:54)
"Work!" in progress.

Galactic Carrousel (1:27)
Spin docker.

Anticipation (3:14)
Find out for yourself...

Individual
Favorites

Hearts (Full Orchestration)
An original song
in the style of Enya

Lilith & Eve
A photo/computer creation capturing
the two sides of
a woman's spirit.

The Grouse Mountain Expedition
Photo essay of
a killer hike

For Diana
Original classical music
composition in
memoriam

StoryWeaver
A question & answer software product for intuitive writers,
designed as a step-by-step guide from initial inspiration to completed sequential treatment of a story.

The Cosmic Flea,Too
Poem about
hero worship

Lulladie
Poem about the
time we waste

Strange Fragments
An ongoing compendium of the odd thoughts that crop up from time to time

Blue Gas
Tricky little guitar piece for my next album. 
Presented in
Real Player audio

New Photographs
Taken in and around
my mountain town