Philosophy of a Storyteller Blog Entries
Short Stories
It all Starts with a Great Sentence
A writer’s first line should open up a rib cage: "A screaming comes across the sky," T. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow; "The sun shone, having no alternative to the nothing new," Samuel Beckett's Murphy; "We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall," L. Erdrich, Tracks
Short Stories
A Profound Paragraph Is a Work of Art
The great writers begin their stories with a killer hook which migrates into distinct blocks of text which section out a larger piece of writing – paragraph(s):"The future is always changing, and we're all going to have to live there. Possibly as soon as next week," Hitchers's Guide Douglas Adams
Screenplays
Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior, Use them to Create Compelling Characters
“What is fueling your character’s desire - Acquisitiveness, Rivalry, Vanity, or Love of power?” .
Screenplays
Writing on Narrow Roads to a Festival
Ever think about entering your work in a festival?
Novels
Four of Literatures' Most Powerful Inventions You Probably Use to Tell Stories and the Actual Neuroscience behind them
Plot Twist; The Hurt Delay; The Tale Told From Our Future; The Almighty Heart
Novels
Disagreeing with Your Narrator
Motivation runs out pretty quickly once we get to the nuts and bolts of the grind, but discipline, on the other hand, is about doing the task no matter what; So, Does your internal monologue play out on a television, in an attic, in your head, as a bickering Italian couple – or is it entirely, blissfully silent?