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Writer-Producer, MCA Television; Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox TV; Story Editor, Universal TV. Additional credits see imdb.com.
Publications: "My Name is David: Search for Identity", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses (Sept. 2020); "Fields of Poison: Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician", Floricanto & Berkeley Presses; "Black Wheels", NEA Best African American Book List; Best-selling "Jacob’s Rescue", Random House; "Writing Great Characters", Lone Eagle; "Writing the Second Act", MWP; "Writing the Killer Treatment", MWP.
Plays: "Freedom, Texas" Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Best Revenge: A Harmless Subterfuge", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "Major Rewrite", Theatre 40 virtual performance; "All Steps Necessary", L.A. prem
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The Character Driven Story

As much as we enjoy focusing on archetypes, when developing characters it’s critical to examine all the other issues that make up compelling characters. Archetypes are useful since they present us with valid, and forceful templates that have stood the test of time. However they only work when we understand the principal aspects of the human condition.

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"What about your family, Abu Huwa? Are you an orphan?” the little girl very innocently asked the Sphinx.

“My father and your father are one and the same. However, I do have a brother who has stood as my mirror throughout time on the opposite horizon. It is I who faces east, but it is he who faces west. I am the recorder of yesterday and he holds the records of tomorrow. I am the positive, and he is my negative. I carry the right eye of the sun and he carries the left eye of the moon. He keeps his eye on the underworld and I keep an eye on the world over. Together we have joined the sky and earth, and split fire and water.”

Seham stood on all toes to peek over the Sphinx's shoulder for a sign of his brother. “Where is he?” she asked, her eyes still searching the open horizon.

“He has yet to be uncovered, but as I stand above the sands of time, he still sleeps below. Before the descent of Adam, we have both stood as loyal Protectors of the Two Halls of Truth.”

The girl asked in astonishment, “I've never heard of these halls, Abu Huwa. Where are they?”

“At the end of each of our tails is a passage that will reveal to you the secrets of Time. One hall reflects a thousand truths, and the other hall reflects all that is untrue. One will speak to your heart, and the other will speak to your mind. This is why you need to use both your heart and mind to understand which one is real, and which is a distorted illusion created to misguide those that have neglected their conscience. Both passageways connect you to the Great Hall of Records.”

“What is the Hall of Records?”

“The Great Pyramid, my child. It is as multidimensional in its shape as it is in its purpose. Every layer and every brick marks the coming of a prophet, the ascension of evil, or another cycle of man. It contains the entire history and future of mankind. And, as is above, so is below. Above ground, it serves as the most powerful energy source to harmonize and power the world! The shape of the pyramid above ground is also the same image mirrored beneath it. Underground, it serves as a powerful well and drain. This is really why Egypt is called the Land of Two Lands. There exists a huge world of its own underneath the plateau, a world within worlds. Large amounts of gold, copper and mercury were once housed here, including the secrets of Time, the 100th name of He Who Is All, and a gift from Truth that still awaits to be discovered. It sleeps with Time in the Great Pyramid, hidden away in a lower shaft that leads to the stars.”

Dialogue from 'The Little Girl and the Sphinx' by Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (Dar-El Shams, 2010)”
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