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The Stories of Scott D. Southard

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  • A Jane Austen Daydream
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  • January 18, 2012

    10 Works I Wish I Had Written

    Sometimes I feel like December and January are the times all entertainment Web sites and writers set aside for creating lists.  We drown in them; from movies, to books, to important people, etc.  Lists after lists after lists.

    Don’t worry, this is not one of those lists.  This is something a little more personal.

    I’ve been, since starting this blog, trying to rethink my writing and my goals, and one thing I am trying to latch on to is what stimulates me, what means something to me.  What do I want to accomplish in my own writing?

    This list is of ten creations that, at one time or another, touched me as a storyteller.  There is no particular order, no best to worst.

    Are these choices the best in their mediums? No, not all of them. Are these things that I could have written? A few, I think with the initial spark I could have devised in a way. Are these works that inspire me? Most definitely. (more…)

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  • January 10, 2012

    Why I am stuck seeing The Phantom Menace again…

    They say that being a parent is all about making sacrifices. I had already understood that but I never thought it was something concrete, I thought it would mean I was like The Giving Tree, but in spirit … But because my son is four, and he is the right age for it, I’m about to make another sacrifice, one to hang on the wall of parenthood next to my broken DVD of the first The Pirates of the Caribbean and the torn cover of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles.

    I am going to take him to see Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on Imax, 3D in February.

    Godfather 3 is far too over quoted by people, but seriously, I was out! Lucas and his mad skills at getting to my checkbook has pulled me back in.

    Now I grew up with Star Wars (the first movie came out when I was three which was the perfect age for warping my little mind), but after all of his changes to the original trilogy he had lost me. I was free! I didn’t buy the last set of DVDs, I didn’t buy the Blu-Rays. Oh, I held them in the store, but more to study the ugly cover art on the front (and really it is bad). (more…)

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  • September 30, 2011

    Do you like humor and insight? Sure we all do…

    I’ve collected all of the editorials and articles I have written for Green Spot Blue in one location.  They can now be found here on my blog:  https://sdsouthard.wordpress.com/articles-on-greenspotblue-com/

    And via the links, you can learn:

    * How Indiana Jones can make all of us feel old (Its not the years, its the mileage).

    * Why Sesame Street needs to be saved from celebrities (and how it can be done).

    * The many, many, many problems with Thomas the Tank Engine.

    * Another series of reasons why the Star Wars prequels suck (because we need more reasons, right?).

    * How an agnostic celebrates Christmas… and explains death!

    Sounds fun? All those and way too many articles about super heroes.  Check it out!

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  • May 19, 2011

    Good Riddance– A Letter from the Sinners

    A comedy essay for Green Spot Blue about the end of the world (May 21). Share and enjoy –

    http://www.greenspotblue.com/world/2011/5/19/essay-good-riddance-a-letter-from-the-sinners.html

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