This week’s video warns against the temptation to eliminate all subtlety and ambiguity.
Excuse Me, Did You Misplace Your Modifier?
One of the most common, and to the careful reader, one of the most distracting, errors made by writers, even the so-called professionals, is the misplaced or “dangling” modifier.
Stars In My Eyes
The magic of the moment when a child realizes that the planets and the stars are real, not just pictures in story books or drawings in a science text, can profoundly affect her understanding of other life experiences.
Episodic Storytelling? Here’s Why
This week’s video offers some pointers for avoiding dead-end events in your stories.
The Portable Writing Teacher
Aspiring writers are fortunate: to find all the great teachers they need, and more, they just have to walk into their local library.
How to Create a Surefire Awesome Setting
This week’s video offers suggestions for balancing the perception that reader dislike setting description with the reality that every book needs a vivid setting.
A Congenital Life: Part 5 of 5
The pale boy before her seemed so delicate, a drop of rain might dissolve him. “Don’t you think that would be a selfish thing to do, taking your own life?”
The Writer as (Performing) Artist
Like opera singers, professional baseball players, and Olympic-level figure skaters, writers have a responsibility to give their audience a deeply pleasurable experience. Acquiring the ability to consistently deliver such experiences takes hard work.
A Congenital Life: Part 4 of 5
She wanted to tell him, I married you because you held the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right – I could imagine us comfortable on holiday in Paris, you in easy conversation with the natives. I don’t feel anything like love for your fork and knife tonight.
Filmmaking 101 Part 4 – The Pre-Production Dance Of Insanity
When working on a creative project like this, I become so emotionally invested that it’s hard to be objective. Good news flies me to the stars. Bad news sinks me to the bottom of the ocean. To spare you from the boring details on how each of these events warmed or broke my heart, I’ve decided to make a list. Just the facts, nice and tidy.
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