The blank page is every writer’s closed door. Even though I know what I’m writing about, I’m often stuck at how I want to tell the story. Sometimes I find myself banging on that closed door for hours, screaming “let me in!” Over decades of a writing career, I’ve learned this is an exercise in […]
“…Then, in the twentieth century, speed up your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending . . . Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume.” Sounds […]
For someone who thrives on storytelling, I live in bountiful times. Traditional media – books, radio, and television – have fed me for most of my life. But in the last few years I find myself taking more and more bites from an ever-growing and overflowing buffet. Streaming TV and YouTube offer new ways to […]
As writers and storytellers, we’re voracious consumers of narrative in all its forms – from books and podcasts to movies and television. For us, it’s not just an enjoyable way to spend time. We also discover inspiration and lessons we can apply to our own writing. That’s why, once a month, we’ve started to […]
For writers, music does more than just set the mood. It can act as the very prompt that carries your creative process. If you’re a fan of Stranger Things, you know how much music can affect the entire tone of a narrative. For fans of a certain generation, all you need to be swept back […]
