Melissa Ingoldsby
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I Want Candy...
Unpopular Opinion: I love the incorporation of modern music in old time settings. It’s cringy to some, annoying to most—-and cloying and a bit pretentious to others—but the point I will make (in an attempt to understand the director’s decision) is this:
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Beat
Two Places(an old STL throwback article)
I do remember those days, back in my Childhood When you’d take me after a long day at Meramac Springs, and the whole truck would smell like bait, fish(all the trout we caught) and coins(you’d always have mountains of coins in your truck)...
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Feast
The Building
It was a tall building, not a skyscraper, but certainly about as tall as the likes of a New York skyline. It’s sort of brutalist style and design, slabs and stacks of concrete stacked upon each other like a seemingly endless stack of crooked blocks, was indicative of what it represented.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
Role-play
We played to be different people, without ever touching—-we kissed, without ever holding one another, we fell into a deep shared breath, collapsing and carrying our weight into the ongoing part we each needed the other to be, and completed our first dream date through living someone else’s life.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Humans
My top three Most Influential male protagonists
I love these people, and they mean a lot to me in many different ways from different parts of my life. The fact that they are male is my main source of inspiration for the way I write, and these people and their stories is just another huge example of why I love to write in this perspective.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
My three top influential female protagonists
As an accompaniment to my recent article here: I also wanted to share with you all my top three most influential female protagonists in literature. As a result of myself pushing my limits and the way I write, including how I used to limit my own perspective to only male driven narratives, I feel that having good examples of female protagonists are something any writer can use as a character and writing reference.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Journal
