Hi Folks, Originally I didn’t intend to revisit this topic, but I received a great deal of discussion on it. If you followed the comments, you saw the tip of the iceberg. The rest were to me directly via email. And that’s fine, really, but if you could leave a comment in the comment form below, it would make search engines place my website on a higher level of consciousness or something, especially the god-like Google. … Read more
Hi Folks, I mentioned in an earlier post that as part of my retraining as a writer, I’m learning to trust my subconscious to write the story. I want to be clear: this is not the “freewriting” technique most of us have heard about. In freewriting, the writer (usually a student) is told to ignore or “don’t worry about” grammar or syntax or punctuation or capitalization. The task is just to get the words on paper … Read more
Hi Folks, Yeah, this is kind’a like my previous post, or at least it looks like it on the surface. The previous post was Ideas and this one is Story Starters. In the previous post I talked about where ideas (story starters) come from. In this one I’m going to actually give you some story starters. Please feel free to use any of these that make you want to finish the story. They are all original … Read more