Writing practice: just write [another windows background image] Francois couldn’t move forward and he couldn’t go back. He stood motionless on the bridge, bathed in the yellow light of the street lamps and the pink glow of the pre-dawn sky, leaning on the heavy stone railing, staring at the Seine below. “Let me go through …
Writing exercise: just write [just write. you just need to break down that pre-judgment wall] The house was shaped like a marshmallow, and had a flat conical roof, the red faded to a hint of orange after years in the mediterranean sun. It didn’t have windows, per se – they were more like small square …
Writing practice: just write a narrative [try not to think too much, treat it like morning pages, don’t let your critical mind disparage anything your about to write, stifling you. just get the words out, get used to writing] [just write] In 1843 my grandfather left home without notice. He was 16 years old, and …
Writing practice: just write any narrative “What does it matter anyway?” The bum spoke despondently, averting his eyes, saying it to the ground, to no one. His eyes were unfocused. Perhaps he was thinking of his past, the series of days which led him here. Perhaps he was thinking of his present – a present …
‘The hardest thing for aspiring writers is to put black ink on white paper.’ Indeed. Time to slog. Writing practice: Story from a news article The men creeped. No, they stalked, the sharp edges of their moonlit shadows cutting through the underbrush of the mountain forest. This was their land, or rather they and the …
With the exception of three plays, all Shakespeare’s plots were borrowed from others – his focus was language and character, apparently. I was thinking, for my next story I’ll borrow a fairy tale plot and write it as a small play in iambic pentameter (blank verse – I’m tired of trying to rhyme). After doing …
I’m reading bits of lots of books, and today I started reading the Arden Shakespeare version of King Henry VI, part 1. This is one of his first plays, and I’m wanting to read through the canon in about chronological order so I can see how his skill developed over time. Anyway, it’s clear from …
I posted my latest YT story this evening, glad to be done with that. I’ve been fighting that for 4 weeks, and now it’s done, and least for a while until I revisit and revise. My thinking is to just make these 85% good and move on – I’ll revisit them all when my skill …
I’m a few days away from posting another story on the DN YT channel, and it’s (partly) about the magic of finding one’s passion – or of it finding you. I realized just this evening that, in college and thereafter, I had wanted to express something meaningful within, but I didn’t have anything to express …
This comes from reflections on my own experiences, so there’s bias and specificity… When you’re starting out and are fairly unskilled in a lot of ways, you need to assemble a team. Generally the team you assemble will be near to your skill level, as those with much greater skill wouldn’t necessarily want to work …