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Writing your first few scripts can feel really scary. Staring at a blank Final Draft file often made me feel as though I was being thrown to the metaphorical wolves, and there were...
By PJ Parrish Okay, I’d like you to read this short scene from a book I grabbed off my shelf. See if you can figure out what’s wrong here. Jesse handed him the Jack Daniels. Louis...
“What the budding artist needs is the privilege of wrestling with problems in solitude—and without a master. He must learn to think and feel for himself, to trust his own impulses,...
By Charlotte Donlon When Saint Teresa of Avila sent the second draft of The Book of Her Life to her spiritual director, she reminded him that he promised to tear up the bad parts....
By Alison Colwell I step away from my computer and stretch, rolling out my neck muscles. For the last five hours, I’ve been searching for the word “that” over and over in a repetit...
“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.”
The writer’s dilemma is time. (Perhaps that everybody’s dilemma, but I digress.) Writers are blessed/cursed with fertile imaginations that don’t come with off switches. Since getti...
It’s sophistry to argue that one can write within a constraint without the constraint affecting the quality of the writing.
Not every story is meant to make us good, but every compelling story shows the contrast between good and evil. Literature uses fiction to depict truth and vice to reveal virtue.
“You write until the rust comes out of the faucet and it’s clear water. Then you write down the clear water.”--Lin-Manuel MirandaFor 100s more On Writing posts, go here.For 100s mo...
“There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“It is better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation.”
For many people’s scripts, the rewriting process can feel like Hell on Earth. Writer John Vorhaus recently sat down with Film Courage to talk about why he actually likes the rewrit...
I’ve never been a violent person, except perhaps in my nearly violent love of literature. In fact, I’m a practicing Buddhist, so I’ve taken vows to try to do as much kindness and...
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial vi...
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial vi...
If your first draft is imperfect, you haven’t failed —you are exactly where you need to be. By Dinty W. Moore One of the most difficult lessons we have to learn when writing our fi...
"I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and ac...
“It is better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest,...
“Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”I have been a screenwriter for over forty years and a teacher for two decades, an...
The Muse is a Lover Who Never Turns Up on Time
So, you’re a writer? First of all, c’mere. Hugs. Being a writer is hard for so many reasons, but chief among them is that it’s hard to invent truth. It’s hard to make something up...
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