A good story can last the test of time. There are many classics that we grow up reading that have become cultural standouts over the years. Classic stories will always be the classics for a reason, but sometimes a good reimagining of an old tale is just what a story needs. Times change, and sometimes … Continue reading Reimagining A Story
Tag: fiction
Keeping Your Focus During The Holidays
Do the Holidays always catch you off guard as much as they do for me? This year it's time to be ready and take them head-on. Many, like myself, simply react and do the best they can when the Holidays come around. This year, you can be ready, enjoy the Holidays to the fullest, and … Continue reading Keeping Your Focus During The Holidays
Writing A Novel
This week, I'm posting up about something pretty cool. Books! I know I mostly post about film and television, because that's mainly my background. I love books too, and may be posting some interviews for them from time to time. I found a great article on the best resources for writing a novel. Check it … Continue reading Writing A Novel
Donna Tartt Quote
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and … Continue reading Donna Tartt Quote
David Foster Wallace Quote
"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant." David Foster Wallace
George Saunders on Fiction
"Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, … Continue reading George Saunders on Fiction
from The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
“But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that … Continue reading from The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
A Moment with Jack Kerouac…
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
Eight Incredible Writers Residencies
Residencies are the ultimate dream for a writer. To spend weeks, sometimes months, away from society and technology to focus solely on the work - that's the stuff of fantasy. Given time to reflect, decompress, be alone with your thoughts, and connect to nature, what could you accomplish? Here are 8 of the most dreamy retreats … Continue reading Eight Incredible Writers Residencies
QOTD
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.” … Continue reading QOTD
