“Your character’s backstory should feel to you that it doesn’t ‘end’ where the story proper begins. It needs to still be there, under the surface. And if it’s strong enough it will help immeasurably in creating a powerful (story).” Pauline Kiernan is a screenwriter, award-winning playwright, and Shakespeare scholar. “Pauline is interested in exploring themes […]
Quote by Tom Peters
“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” ~Tom Peters
Quote and Submissions Request for CHOICES, An Anthology
“Sometimes in the waves of change we find our true direction.” Unknown This quote was on Facebook by my friend, Frances Caballo. I’m posting it because I like it but also as a reminder to those of you who would like to submit to my next anthology with the theme Choices. Short stories and […]
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead said, “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” Do you agree? Why or why not?
Quote from Wired for Story About Conflict
Lisa Cron, on page 129 in Wired for Story, talks about obstacles to block the protagonist’s goals . She states “Obstacles mean nothing unless, beneath the surface, the seeds of that conflict are present from the outset, as they begin pushing their tender shoots through the soil in search of the sun.” I thought about […]
Margaret Atwood Quote
I visited the San Francisco Writers Conference on Twitter @SFWC and liked the retweet they posted from www.advicetowriters.com. It was a Margaret Atwood quote: “You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.”
Quote and Prompt for today
Sunday, July 14, 2013 The air teaches you the power of invisibility. ~ Dr. Pillai Harry Potter had an invisibility cloak. Can you write one into your story? Or use it as a metaphor? Or write a new story with air as a character teaching the power of invisibility?