#Narnia

Russell F. Hirsch

Oct 25, 20232 min read

Descriptive Language that Sparkles

Kill your darlings! Get to the point! Plot over prose! How many times have you heard advice about simplifying your writing for middle...

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Russell F. Hirsch

Oct 11, 20231 min read

We all know the feeling of finding our tribe. Whether we were kids discovering new friends on the playground, teens navigating a new...

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Russell F. Hirsch

Mar 8, 2019

I rejoin Caitlin from the Words in Living Color podcast blog to chat about The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe–in its book form and as...

Russell F. Hirsch

Nov 10, 2017

Last month, master storyteller Philip Pullman, published The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, marking a return to the world of His Dark...

Russell F. Hirsch

Sep 6, 2015

The end of the beginning is nigh! We move on to the third stage of a Hero’s Journey plot line, “Crossing the First Threshold.” This stage...