Tag: imagination
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NaNoWriMo…
I’m back. I haven’t written on this blog for over 8 weeks. It’s obviously easier for me to write about the craft of writing, than of my own exploits in writing. Why is that?
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Picture and Story
The face is an organic mask. It can’t hold falsehood forever. Eventually there is an unguarded moment when the muscles relax. And you see the true face of the person.” –Lisa Book, sister of Isabel Raine in Die for Me, by Lisa Unger Isabel Raine, the protagonist in Unger’s latest suspense thriller, Die for You,…
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Déjà Vu: Writing Exercise # 97
The self-doubt of our internal pacman says, “You can’t,” when it comes to achieving our goals, and certainly not in the way, and at the quality that we hope. Mixed with our general fears about life, and living pacman overpowers us, and our ideas, and ostensibly contaminates our process of creativity.
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Dramatist and Dramaturge
Much has been written and said about point-of-view, the perspective and way in which a story or novel is depicted. This leads to two other questions. Whose story is the narrative? And who best to tell it?
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Writing and Egolessness
Crafting stories is the perfect opportunity, offers a wonderful experience, to practice egolessness. The words our characters speak, our prose that describes their actions and feelings are but soldiers in the army of our thoughts. How fleeting.
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Imagination and Life
Who is your imagination and what makes it tick? Every artists owes it to her or himself to contemplate her or his imagination, what energizes it, what it craves, what stifles it.
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Dry Spells
Writers often encounter dry spells, blockages, or what seems a loss of imagination. We most often call this writer’s block. I actually think that writer’s block is a catch-all term for times when we don’t know what to write. Not knowing what to write can occur in many phases of our writing, the outset of…