Archive for 'Fictional worlds'
Overwhelming. This year. In its watery infancy of March….Story is powerful.
Dear Writers,
If I asked you to list the 10 events that have affected you most deeply in the past months since the new year entered or we entered the new year, in your immediate sphere, in your family, in this country, in another, in your love life, in your children’s lives, in your art, down the [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2010 under Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction, Beyond writer's block, Fictional worlds, Story.
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Money and writing. Writing and money. Research, Truth, and Imagination.
April 30, 2009
Let’s face it. An economy in shock is not such a shock if you are not only a writer, but a writer from and remaining in the working class.
I am not allergic to the thought of making big money with my writing. Not at all. But the real joy would not be [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2009 under Creative Process, Fictional worlds, Research for works of fiction, Story, Uncategorized.
Comments: 2
Despair, Joy, Complexity: Against writing default endings to fictional stories.
March 19, 2009
(coincidentally, the day before spring)
Interesting times, no?
Hope? Change?
Doom?
Restorative justice? Innocence Project?
Families Destroyed. New Kinds of Families Being Created.
War Crimes. Truth and Reconciliation.
Environmental Destruction. Melting Ice Caps.
Reclaiming the Rainforest. Greening the World.
Financial Collapse.
Greening the Economy.
Dying Newspapers.
Global News Online.
Sometimes it feels like the same old, and getting worse by the moment. Sometimes [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under Creative Process, Fictional worlds.
Comments: 4