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You're right, I was getting defensive. (breathes, and another deep breath...)
Of COURSE actors are not creations of my brain! I needed to convey how that moment felt to me. And it felt like: when someone you are working...
This aspect of the process -- creating characters with independent life -- makes writing fiction tremendously rewarding, and shouldn't be taken...
Just last week, I received an email from a well known novelist (over 120 published works, fiction and non-fiction), who advised me, in that email,...
She tried, unsuccessfully, to ignore it.
I voted for 'puppet.' I was thinking maybe the alien didn't built it perfectly and has trouble operating it.
Oracles, like Magic 8 Ball or the "I Ching", work, but they're not magic. They are only mirrors, reflecting back to you what you already know,...
Note-to-self: Space Opera + Fun + Wonder. I'm on it. :)
Yes! But even knowing that, I'm still amazed by it all. "Sometimes, I surprise even myself!" - Han Solo
The capacity of any fictional character to surprise, fascinates me -- especially because I know these characters are inventions of my mind. There...
Who's the ultimate villain? Satan. Years ago, I remembered the mythology... Satan (aka, Lucifer) wasn't always evil. He started out as an angel....
You have to get crafty. You have, say, a King of Assassins, but (and you have be really sneaky here), when he's not looking: whoopee cushion on...
You remember the moment in ET. Loose objects begin to shiver and tremble on the table. Little Gertie (Drew Barrymore), not a little concerned,...
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