Write Gooder, not Better
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”–Ernest Hemingway This week’s challenges are a little different. I found myself thinking about how we get...
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...
