Does Art Have the Power to Change a Life?
On a radio show recently the question was put forth, “does art have the power to change a life?” Although I’ve always thought a life without art is a dead life and a society without art is a dead society, I’d never considered the question quite in that way. It started me thinking about my [...]
The Best Time to Write
I used to be a night person. I was in the theatre, after all. (And, yes, I spell it with and “re”. I’m pretentious and gay. Go with me or move on, I say.) Even in college, when most people were getting up at dawn to get to their first class sometime in the prehistoric [...]
Fictionalizing Stories from Life
If you are writing stories from your life, there are may reasons to fictionalize them, or at least fictionalize elements of them. I’m going to briefly focus on three: For your benefit For the benefit of the people you’re writing about For the benefit of your reader We’ll start with the most obvious, for benefit [...]
Why Most Advice to Writers Sucks
Many years ago, Steve had a subscription to Writer’s Digest magazine. In almost every issue, there were articles such as: “10 Writing Mistakes to Avoid” “The 5 Top Reasons an Agent Will Reject Your Book” “7 Query Don’ts” “Why You Won’t Sell Your Manuscript” “The Top 10 Things You’re Doing Wrong” “Why You Suck as [...]
The Myth of Talent
I had a life-changing exchange with a teacher, once. We were talking about pursuing our passions, our art. About spending our lives doing something we loved. I stood up in class and asked a question that had been burning in my heart for years: “What if I’m just not talented?” He asked me, “What if [...]
Possibility
A blank piece of paper (or a curser blinking on a blank screen) can be the most wonderful of things. It can fill you with wonder or dread. I chose wonder. The possibilities are endless. Shall I create a lush landscape and people it with gnomes? Shall it be a bleak forest full of gnarled, [...]
Visceral Writing
I use the word “visceral” often to describe writing, or, at least, a certain kind of writing. What, exactly, do I mean by that word? Webster’s On-Line dictionary defines visceral thus: vis cer al adj. \’vi-sə-rəl, ‘vis-rəl\ felt in or as if in the viscera : deep “a visceral conviction” not intellectual : instinctive, unreasoning [...]
Can Creative Writing Enhance Other Types of Writing?
Can learning the techniques of fiction and creative writing enhance other types of writing? When we study creative writing, we learn how to structure stories, how to communicate their ideas. We learn how to evoke emotions, how to build characters and relationships between characters. Let’s look to see how any of these skills might go [...]
The Myth of Rules
I often talk about writer’s myths, things people think of as writing rules that often just get in the way of good writing. Are their any rules for writing that the writer should be aware of? Certainly. One such rule is, “don’t use sentence fragments”. An example of a sentence fragment, for those who missed [...]
A Writer’s Exercise
All artists have exercises to help them with the craft of their art. Painters and sculpters are always sketching. Musicians do scales and are always plinking and plunking and tinkling on something. Dancers do their bar work. Singes do vocal warmups. An exercise we recommend for writers is to sit down, look at something in [...]
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