The Miracle Max Corollary: Life, Laughter, and the ER

My mind drifts to that scene with Miracle Max, because I am nothing if not deeply philosophical, who explains to Inigo and Fezzik that Westley is only mostly dead, and that mostly dead is partly alive. But then I think of the Miracle Max Corollary, which if it isn’t a thing, I vote that it should be a thing, and that would have Inigo countering Miracle Max with Yes, but partly alive is mostly dead. Because that’s how it is feeling there in the ER.

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No Time for Giving Up and Fading Out: Why Life’s Act III is the Time to be Fearless

It’s the 1980s. I’m combing through the course catalog (made of a thing called “paper”) looking for another writing course or two to fulfill my graduation requirements. There is one called something like Scriptwriting for Film and TV that caught my eye. My land-locked school wasn’t exactly famous for being a pipeline to Hollywood, but… Continue reading