Non-writers can’t bring technical knowledge of the craft to the table, but they bring something else: their objective experience as readers.
Life in Mai Chau – Part 2
The trek from Sam Khoe up through the mountains to visit other villages is a challenge for the hardiest walkers as the humidity soars in the late morning and temperatures peak over 40C.
The Jumping Frenchmen
In 1878 American neurologist George Beard made his way to northern Maine in search of a most interesting quarry: the legendary Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.
Pour on the Conflict
This week’s video reveals the varied layers of conflict we can choose to include in our stories—and why we want as many of those layers as possible.
Poppy poet preaches self-empowerment
Ilona Martonfi’s Blue Poppy is a rallying cry against oppression. Ilona Martonfi considers herself a poet-activist. While her first book of poetry, Blue Poppy, might initially read like the dirge of a brutal marriage, the subject matter changes meaning in light of her activism. “I am talking about freedom,” said Martonfi. “Freedom from violence, wherever […]
Falling with grace
I adore this time of year. The cacophony of transcendent leaves, the ballast of wind shifting and shaping the waters of the ocean, the exhale of each day’s quotient of light and nighttime’s clamor for divine dominion.
Is That A Beautiful Sunset, or Nuclear Fallout? The Cuban Missile Crisis (Sponsored Video)
In 1962, a young boy anxiously watches the tension escalate between Russia and the United States during the Cuban missile crisis, and has his fears brought into frightening clarity.
How to Write Sympathetic Characters
This week’s video discusses a few ways to dig down to the sympathetic core of even the most uncooperative characters.
Remembrance
Melinda Cochrane asks … are we remembering?
Overtime
He was just a boy, all of twenty-one. Then the morning came, his number turned, mail out by the ton. Said we need you boy, country’s on the run. Spoke his last goodbye’s, now the time had come …
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