Post 31 on Connie Green’s 30 Day Challenge – Having an Idea
As most of you may already know (or wondered, seeing all the posts for the last month being numbered for some reason,) a month ago I accepted Connie Regan Green’s challenge to write 30 blog posts in 30 days. Being a bit of a show-off, I’m doing 31. Did I know I would complete the [...]
Post 30 – All’s Well that Ends Well
This is my penultimate post in Connie Green’s 30 day challenge (I’ll end with 31 posts. I’ve always been an overachiever. Okay, a teacher’s pet. You can say it.) Because of this, and because I’ve already covered Beginnings and Middles, today I’ll talk about endings, and use Mr. Shakespeare’s title without compunction or permission. What [...]
Post 29 – The Muddle in the Middle
A few days ago I posted about beginnings of stories, which can actually happen in the beginning, the middle or the end of the written work. Now let’s look at the middle. Often, I’ve heard that the basic reason that much writing doesn’t quite work is “the muddle in the middle.” I think this can [...]
Post 28 – Passion
Passion has always been my favorite word (well, maybe not always, I suspect when I was a kid, it was more like “fun” and when I was a teenager, it was more like “angst” but, hey, I’m an old fogy now and if I say always, take it how you like it!) I love when [...]
Post 27 – Mythic Journeys
I’ve talked a lot in recent posts, about myths that artists carry around that, unacknowledged, can thwart their creativity. I’d like to change tack a little and talk about myth itself. Myths are important to the development and cohesion of a society, and often art is where the myths are codified and perpetuated. The early [...]
Post 26 – Hope, the Enemy of Art
I hate the word “hope”. I’m going to let that sentence stand there by itself for a moment. In fact, I’ll repeat it. I hate the word “hope”. How can I hate it? The word means looking for a brighter future, it is a vision of a greater life. It is the basis of a [...]
Post 25 – Beginnings at the Beginning
It’s a new year, and as such, I thought I’d talk a little about beginnings. The western notion of story structure (no, it’s not Universal, I’ll talk about that in another post) dictates a beginning, a middle and an end. It dictates setups and payoffs. It dictates some sort of change to happen to a [...]
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