Everything out there begins with a seed. Trees in the forest. The chicken on your plate – chicken-and-egg debate notwithstanding. And in particular, movies. Movies begin with a little nugget in some writer’s mind. The writer sits stooped over his umpteenth pint in the pub, engaged in banter with his neighbourly barfly or bartender at […]
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One topic that seems to come up regularly in my writers’ group is – and I’m just as guilty of it as anyone – the shift of point-of-view in telling in a story. Example? Joe looked at Sarah and thought she looked absolutely dynamite. His heart felt like it was being squeezed in a vice
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You’d be hard pressed to find a use for books other than reading. Some people use them as doorstops, others use them to prop up a table leg to cut down on the wobbling. Others, still, like to use them for bonfires. But that’s another story. One guy, however, found a way to turn books
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