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  • Guide to Writing Fiction

    Guide to Writing Fiction

    A plot is the skeleton of a story, and is therefore essential to any work of fiction. If you plan on writing a story without a plot, don’t even expect your mother to read it, yet alone the rest of the world. In this guide, we’re going to outline a bulletproof formula to plan and…

  • How to Prepare for a Psychedelic Trip

    How to Prepare for a Psychedelic Trip

    A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of spacetime dimensions, and of the ego or identity. This guide is a map on how to best prepare for and navigate such a journey.

  • The Psychology of Child Development

    The Psychology of Child Development

    Child development is an area of psychology overflowing with zany theories and crazy ideas (cough, Freud, cough). In all seriousness though, child development is one of the most interesting topics in psychology to learn about and is also, arguably, the most important, as just about everything that we think and do today as adults has…

  • How to Build Your Own IKEA Pedalboard

    How to Build Your Own IKEA Pedalboard

    Over the years I’ve acquired a decent collection of pedals, and while it was easily manageable when I only had a wah and overdrive pedal, once the rest of them rolled in I found myself tangled in cables and power adaptors. I knew I needed a pedalboard but I also knew if I could afford…

  • Psychedelic Mushrooms And You

    Psychedelic Mushrooms And You

    Originally published in 2012, updated in 2023 with new info and images. DISCLAIMER – This guide is in no way meant to advocate the use of illegal drugs; it exists solely to spread an important pocket of knowledge that might have the potential to save lives, or at the very least, trips to the hospital.…

  • How to Play Jazz Guitar Scales

    How to Play Jazz Guitar Scales

    Bebop scales are certainly very valuable scales to add to your repertoire, especially if jazz is your bag. If you already know how to play the major scale and all of it’s modes, then you will find playing bebop scales a breeze. The reason being, these scales are essentially the same as the major scale’s…

  • How to Play the Major Scale on Guitar

    How to Play the Major Scale on Guitar

    I’m not sure why I took so long to write a guide on the major scale, considering it’s easily the most important bit of music theory that you can learn, and knowing it is essential in order to learn other scales and chord theory. I even wrote my guide on modes of the major scale…

  • How to Play Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

    How to Play Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

    This post we’re going to be discussing three minor scales: the Natural Minor scale (Aeolian mode), the Harmonic Minor Scale, and the Melodic Minor Scale. As you probably know already from my guide on the Modes of the Major Scale, the 6th mode of the major scale is always the natural minor scale, or the…

  • How to Write a Language Analysis Essay

    How to Write a Language Analysis Essay

    This post is an extension to my previous guide: Journalism 101: Language Analysis. The ability to analyse how language is used to persuade an audience is critical to any journalist; it is also handy knowledge for daily readers of the news so they can avoid being manipulated by crafty journalists. Once you have learnt all…