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 …
What you do and how you express it has to come from a place of love/passion or it won’t resonate with you and people won’t be inspired by it. You have to find that which you love, then speak from that place. It will infuse everything you say and how you say it. Four things:
Early in the pandemic I began reading a lot, and there was a moment last year when I realized I fell in love with reading and writing. It was one of the most significant moments of my life, but until this morning I never thought about why it happened. Well there is so much chaos …
Morning Pages is a daily journaling technique where you write 3 pages as quickly as you can, whatever comes to mind. No pre-thinking, no judgement. Every once in a while it can be truly cathartic, releasing a lot of chaos, pain, and negativity in our unconscious. I published a video and blog post a few …