What happened to me? Well, first of all I got fucked up while in the US Air Force during the Viet Nam war and I'm a 100% disabled war veteran, so...
Have you read many screen plays/scripts? Knowing what a pro job looks like can be a big help. Also you might watch some re-runs 0f the TV show...
As a voracious reader I agree whole-heartedly with Mr. King. When I was a tyke my dad read me to sleep every night. Kipling, Steinbeck, Dickens...
Perhaps what we are talking about is the difference between art and craft. When I was writing newspaper columns and ad copy I considered what I...
Well, my characters say "well" a lot. It can be a deep subject. Oh well...
I will write about anything that comes to mind. If there are certain details about a subject, character, location or whatever that I am ignorant...
Drinking bourbon, smoking weed, fly fishing, elk hunting and walking around and thinking.
Write the good part first. You know - the part that sounds really cool to you. It may be the beginning, the middle or the end. You'll know where...
'Call me Ishmael'. Did that grab your attention?
The Roman inquisition? Really?
I for one do not view short story writing as being merely practice for the 'real deal' of novel writing. Practice indeed! I doubt that Beethoven...
Cut yourself some slack. You can't have a good plot or theme without being creative. How poetically you put them across is your business. Look,...
Yes, absolutely. As a song writer and a poet I let it go both ways.
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