* Guest post by fiction writer and member Sabrina Tom In 2nd grade I was voted bossiest in the class slam book. A bad label for a girl of any age. So recently when I agreed to partner with a friend to write a screenplay this was what I was most worried about. Never mind … Continue reading What I Learned as a Fiction Writer Collaborating on My First Screenplay and What It Taught Me About Democracy: A Personal History
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
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
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
I agree with Stephen. It's important to read for several reasons. It increases your vocabulary, allowing you to use the proper words for the story you want to tell. It expands what you know about the world around you, opening your mind up to new possibilities. It also allows you to question the world … Continue reading Quote of the Day – Stephen King
One thing we've noticed about a vast majority of our members here at theOffice is that no matter what they're writing - a novel, a screenplay, a poem - they always have a book sitting on their desks while they work. The moment they stop typing, when they seem to hit a wall, they pick … Continue reading It’s World Book Day! What are You Reading?
“It’s as though you have a certain music in your head, and trying to get that music out on the page is absolute hell. But what you have to do is give yourself a day, go back, revise, over and over and over again.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.” Chuck Palahniuk
“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.” Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
"It leaves him breathless at times, how much faith people put in one another. So fragile, the social contract: we will all stand by the rules, move with care and gentleness, invest in the infrastructure, agree with the penalties of failure. That this man driving his truck down the street won't, on a whim, angle … Continue reading from Lauren Groff’s “Arcadia”
