“Starting a story is easy. Finishing it is not.” – Me. “A story goes like this: Have a character. Put him up a tree. Throw rocks at him as he tries to get down. Eventually, he needs a ladder to get down. But if that ladder doesn’t make sense, your story sucks.” – a college…
Shakespeare, and others, believed that every good story must have an unusual coincidence that the reader must accept, no matter how improbable. I don’t know enough to agree or disagree with Shakespeare, so I’m going to give both him and Kalifornia the benefit of the doubt. A writer, Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) and his girlfriend…
Just as UFO’s seem to only show themselves in rural areas instead of those with a more dense, and perhaps more intellectual population, so goes The First Phone Call from Heaven, when phones begin to ring in Coldwater, Michigan, population not a whole lot. On one particular Friday, a day of the week considered rather…
Most Disney films are fabulous. However, most Disney films have one key moment that you must accept without question, and if you do not, then the movie collapses like an igloo in Aruba. Frozen, adapted from “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Anderson (“The Little Mermaid”), is fabulous, but it also has that collapsible moment. …
reblogged from last year – because over 2,000 followers didn’t know me then. and if you did read it last year, it’s a little different, in a bad way. Click “Like” if you want, but I prefer you don’t leave a comment. _________________________________ There’s only one day of the whole year that I truly hate,…
Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It is one of those double-edged swords that…
po·et·ry (poh-i-tree) noun writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. Merriam-Webster.com ___________________ po·et·ry (poh-i-tree) noun saying as much as possible in as few words as possible, in a unique way Me __________________ “You can’t write a good…
Every Wednesday Romero Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt challenging writers to create a 100-word story, poem, or whatever works for you. After posting your work on your blog, go back to her site and add your link on her Friday Fictioneers post. Place. Page. Give it a shot. I prefer to stick to 100 words, but she doesn’t mind…
Write what you know, write what you love. We’ve all heard this before, and we usually practice it. Usually. Doesn’t matter what it is or when, as long as you enjoy your time at the keyboard. Right? Usually. Back in April or May of 2012, I was visiting a friend’s blog and saw a picture…
A preface: I occasionally look at other reviews before writing my own because – let’s face it – sometimes we miss things during a two-hour film, and it helps to check around. This time, however, I haven’t missed anything. Of the reviews I’ve read, about 95% have been very negative. Of those 95%, about 100%…
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