The years following my college graduation, the most frequent questions asked by my peers and older adults were: “What did you major in?” and “What do you do?” Initially, the questions would bother me because I could not give a direct answer to the second question without feeling inadequate. What ...

Moving the Rock
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2016Quackcast 253 - narrative order and the flashback
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2016 LISTEN!
Doing stories that start with the climax, then flash back, tell what happened to get there: the old narrative style of switching the first few chapters around to make a more interesting story.
Sometimes it works GREAT because it throws you right into the middle of things and you ...
The Freewheelin' 2015
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2015
Two-thousand fifteen started off with Kroatz wishing everyone in the Drunk Duck forums “growth, satisfaction, and purpose, even if it comes with an almost equal amount of suffering and loss.” I do not believe any statement made in this last year comes as close to this to sum up the ...
Stories Written for Children (That Might Have Been Intended for Adults)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2015
The Giving Tree, Story and Illustration by Shel Silverstein
I remember reading along with certain children's books that became very near and dear to me as a young kid. Over the years, I revisit the story and it begins to take on a whole new meaning as my perspective ...
Let's Colour With Crayons!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2015
(Colouring Sheets Included @ Bottom of Post)
Did you ever watch Mister Rogers when you were a little kid? My all-time favourite episode was the one where he takes the viewer to the crayon factory and showed us how crayons were made. I thought it was the most mesmerizing thing imaginable ...
Forum Restructure and Fashion Free-For-All
HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 13, 2015
The DD forums have been pretty unwieldy for ages now - we have WAY more sub-forums than we need. JustNoPoint made an excellent suggestion to consolidate them into a smaller number of broader forums. We've been discussing the change in this thread without any objections so far, so I went ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Steel and Manitou
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2015
Steel and Manitou tells a tale of the legendary Gtchi Manitou, a Great Spirit, embodied by a white horse with a feather in its mane. The stories are inspired by the Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree) Aboriginal legends from Saskatchewan, Canada. This tale begins when a young orphaned girl, Kassidy Kerr, finds ...