HENRY: I know it's him. Billy, Billy, Billy, the name keeps dropping, each time without significance, but it can't help itself. Hapless as a secret in a computer. Blip, blip. Billy, Billy. Talk to me. I'm sorry about the bedroom. ANNIE: You should have put everything back. Everything would be the way it was. HENRY: … Continue reading QOTD
Author: Wade Gasque
Writer, storyteller and creative/spiritual guide. I help creatives and others navigate our rapidly changing times by cultivating a stronger sense of power and purpose in their lives. More at UncannyMeans.com.
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Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, … Continue reading QOTD
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The stars over the Atlantic are dangling salt crystals. The room at the Seashell Inn is $20 a night; special winter off-season rate. No one else here but us and the night clerk, five floors below, alone with his cherished stack of Spiderman. … Continue reading QOTD
Where We Belong
When I'm not running the ship here at theOffice, I'm pouring everything I've got into my feature directorial debut. It's a drama called Where We Belong about estranged gay brothers struggling to reconnect after the recent death of their father. It's set in a small town in central California and explores this unique dynamic that … Continue reading Where We Belong
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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
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Now, moving in, cartons on the floor, the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled squares where paintings were, and something reminding us this is like all other moving days; finding the dirty ends of someone else's life, hair fallen in the sink, a peach pit, and burned-out matches in … Continue reading QOTD
Member Chatter
On writing for TV. The process changes quite a bit as the season goes on, both in a positive and negative sense. On the positive side, you begin to develop a relationship to your characters (the ones in your head, not the actors); they start talking to you, mouthing off, doing unexpected and unimaginable things. … Continue reading Member Chatter
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
When you feel stuck, afraid to make a move, remember
... there is always someone more afraid than you. Phobias A-L Phobias M-Z -via Prancing Loon PS. If you need to liven up a dull character. Give him Allodoxaphobia or Symmetrophobia or Selenophobia or ...
Sacred Spot
Running a writing space like theOffice, I'm instrinsically curious about the components that make up an inspiring and productive environment for writing. What I've learned over the years is that, of course, we all have different needs. We've had members with us since we opened 9 years ago. They depend on theOffice every day as … Continue reading Sacred Spot
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