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The world changes based on physical laws and dynamics; people change based on physiological and psychological processes. How people perceive these changes and react to them is the stuff of, if not legend, certainly story. A recent David Brooks Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08brooks.html) on “The New Humanism” (which doesn’t look like the old or even current New Humanism [...] As writers, we think and talk a lot about plot and characters, and how they form the structure of our stories. What’s common to this, and many other discussions, is the idea of change. There wouldn’t be a story without change, not even in the literary genre where, like Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot, characters might [...] As writers, we think and talk a lot about plot and characters, and how they form the structure of our stories. What’s common to this, and many other discussions, is the idea of change. There wouldn’t be a story without change, not even in the literary genre where, like Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot, characters might [...] No one can tell you when to start a short story. People can give you all kinds of advice about how to write one, but only you can decide when you are prepared to start. This is something I deal with all the time. I’ll have a window of opportunity where I can work on a short [...] My buddy Tom Piccirilli edited a great little magazine a while ago by that name. Alas, this post won’t match anything he ever published, but a few random sightings of these things on the internet a while back did stir the creative juices (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Famous_last_words ), so I thought I’d share the experience. Basically a story [...] Muggers are a fairly common occurrence in my life. And I kind of welcome them when they come, despite the drama and the inconvenience they bring in their wake. No, I am not talking about the guy with the gun in a dark alley, desperate for what meager pickings he might glean from you in the [...] …I am thinking of honey. More to the point, of harvesting the honey. My grandfather used to keep bees; so did my great-uncle. That was a thing that the two brothers had in common – the basic activity – but the way they went about it was very different. Great-uncle had a bee-keeper’s gloves – I cannot [...] I once knew a photographer who credited a lot of his favorite work to happy accidents … those creative outcomes you don’t intend, don’t try for, or that come out totally wrong but manage to be just right after all. This was in the days of film, when early digital cameras cost as much as a [...] |
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