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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...
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