Story-surgery is required at a number of stages – and is more easily done early on in the process. That’s why is worth being brutal with your story or outline before you start writing a script. It’s like baking a cake. Mary Berry says to make sure you measure the ingredients carefully. If you don’t, …
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On realizing when my vacation started
December has been an unusually stressful month this year, what with jury duty, a rather punishing work schedule, and the usual Christmas shenanigans.
How would you like to be remembered? I would like to be forgotten. What’s so good about being remembered? Q&A: Isabella Rossellini | Life and style | The Guardian Source: Guardian
“A little out of date”
“A little out of date”
“Merry Christmas from the Kensingtons”
My friend, the novelist Lewis Shiner, has a new Christmas short story up on the Subterranean Press site. It’s titled “Merry Christmas from the Kensingtons” and is Lew’s own Christmas ghost story — particularly the ghosts of Christmases past as lived out in a series of annual family photo postcards. It’s a haunting story, and …
Artists don’t talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it’s stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. PADDY CHAYEFSKY AdviceToWriters – Advice to Writers – Artists Don’t Talk About Art Source: advicetowriters.com
Shadows of things that Will be, or shadows of things that May be? (via The Smart Set: Marley and Me – December 8, 2009) Source: thesmartset.com
Then Scrooge has some bad gravy, a nightmare about three ghosts, and he spends Christmas Day in a hysterical fit sending turkeys all about the city and giving everyone raises. He’s so happy not to be dead (as the third ghost suggested he soon would be) that he has a chuckling fit and bursts into …
Later in life [Anthony Burgess] asked an American conductor to explain what makes English music English. The American answered, “Too much organ voluntary in Lincoln Cathedral, too much coronation in Westminster Abbey, too much lark ascending, too much clodhopping on the fucking village green.” Greg Waldmann reviews the musical career of Anthony Burgess | Open …
(via Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies) Source: centripetalnotion.com
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