Archive for April, 2012
Unexpected Inspiration
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, What inspires me on April 25, 2012
We live in a crazy world. With all the demands for a nanosecond of our attention spans, it’s easy to tune out, shut down or narrow our focus. As writers, however, we have to open up. Open our eyes. Our ears. Our noses. Our hearts (Okay, not literally, please!). Stories are everywhere—from a walk in […]
Where My Ideas Come From: Or Why My Family Runs And Hides When I Start A New Play.
Posted by LadyLadder in Linda, What inspires me on April 16, 2012
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire, I won’t look any further than my own backyard, because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie. Except for that line. I hate that line. Because I always wanted to go places, see […]
Writing as Instructive—for both me and the audience
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, What inspires me on April 10, 2012
Writing as Instructive—for both me and the audience Janet Burroway says—in Writing Fiction—that Fiction’s job is to state a problem correctly. Not to solve the world’s problems, not to tell people the right answer; no, writing needs to point out something worth examining—a problem on some level—and suggest how the people detailed in the story […]
Nightmares and Muses
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, What inspires me on April 2, 2012
By Jennie Jarvis When I was in my middle school years, I started having a recurring nightmare. There were black catwalks and pillars of flame. There was suffocating heat, and the rubber from the souls of my sneakers would melt, leaving strings of plastic on the grid below me as I walked. Occasionally, the world […]
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