Tag: persona
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Sprout: Spirit Guide for Today’s World
Look. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman. I feel that way sometimes when trying to explain “Theo and Sprout” to people. It’s a young adult book. It’s coming of age book. It’s a Jungian metaphor. It’s a coming of self book. And it is all of these things, which could either speak to…
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Find Your Inner Sprout
I wrote a guest post about “Theo and Sprout” for a Young Adult book site. I thought you might enjoy it. You ever think of that person inside you? You know the one. The one you wish people knew better. The one that is hard to let out. The one that your afraid to let…
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The Shadow Knows
When you inadvertently use Jungian shadow work to create one of your main characters, you begin to understand why writing the first daft of each chapter was exhausting. That’s what happened in Theo and Sprout. Sprout, basically Theo’s Anima, came to life from deep inside me. which is not surprising since the concept of her…
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Just a Chair
It’s just a chair. When you sit in it you can’t tell what it looks like. It’s looks don’t determine how it feels to sit there. It’s mostly pretty when you’re not sitting in it. You can smile at it and nod at it, and think that’s nice. Strange how the chair has two distinct…
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Theo and Sprout: Jungian Twist
While I didn’t begin writing Theo and Sprout as a coming of age story, I definitely began writing with Jungian concepts in mind. Granted, I realize now that probably wasn’t the best theme from a marketing standpoint. But I give myself some slack here since it was clear from the beginning the story and the…
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