Write Gooder, not Better
As writers, we try to avoid clichés and work to create something original. But sometimes, you can turn to those same assumptions and subvert them into something interesting and unexpected. By playing off old...
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” ― J.K. Rowling “The world is full of magic things,...
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”—Charles R. Swindoll I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go...
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.—Plato If music be the food of...
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.—Levi Strauss Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the...
“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”― Sam Tanenhaus, Literature Unbound “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato, The Republic “Beginnings are always messy.” —John Galsworthy In...
I’m a day late, because apparently yesterday was Wednesday. But anyway, S stands for Stupendous Soon-to-be-Stuck Songs. This piece is pretty simple,you need to first of all choose a favorite song. Then you need...
Okay, okay, okay. I know. I am a terrible person and I have shamefully neglected my Creative Catastrophe posts. I deserve to be imprisoned with cage fighting parrots and a rhinoceros with the stomach...
Oh dear. I have been all over the world these last few months. (Like, actually. Eight different countries, and it was wonderful.) However, I hope that jumping back into the Creative Catastrophe Challenges won’t...
Population Peering. This week go and People Watch, because sometimes you find the craziest inspiration while watching people who don’t realize they’re being watched. Use that inspiration to write a story or a poem...
