I had to train myself to realize that a story is about someone, and someone with a problem. So I had to come up with a problem that the invention of flying cars either solved or created, then find the person on whom this would have the strongest impact, then write THEIR story. But ...
The one with a smile so wide you could cut it in half and it was still bigger than most. There was no way. His funeral was hard on everyone. I didn’t want to see the open casket because I don’t like to have their bodies as my lasting memories. Yet in an effort to shield ...
Anne Frank is best remembered for the diary she kept during the years she was in hiding during World War II. Diary of a Young Girl details the long days she and and the seven other people endured while hiding in a secret annex above her father's business....
Unfortunately, Winter says that because jazz was an underground phenomenon, there was nowhere to play publicly. Sitting around his apartment with nothing to do, he decided to write to the U.S. Department of State, asking to be sent on a goodwill tour of Latin America. "We were perfectly ...
How to write a blurb 101: You put your main character in, you don’t need that secondary character. Detail the conflict with just enough to get the questions rising inside the reader’s head but not too much that you begin answering those questions or deflating any of the big moments in...
Under a microscope they look like animated badminton rackets. A course of metronidazole and a home visit from a Public Health consultant followed. This left me very little time to write The Great Novel. I roughed out a plot, the usual semi-autobiographical guff, and showed it to my then ...
was probably the greatest surprise. It was the first time active volcanoes had been seen on another body in the solar system. Couple that with a an overwhelming amount magnetic, spectroscopic and chemical analysis data backed up by over 100,000 high resolution images, Voyager didn’t disappoint...
aliving document. As you write, things will change. A new scene idea will pop up that you didn’t have before. Your characters will stop cooperating. In my most recent first draft, a character was supposed to die, and she didn’t. The next scene was supposed to be her funeral. Oops...
It’s been an ongoing process for me to develop healthy conflict resolution methods in the here and now. A lot of times, I let my frustration with a person or situation build until it results in blowing my top. I know blowing up is a ridiculous way to act, but when could I have al...
So I screwed up. I didn’t create a good architecture for the project. And I was going to fix that. What I did next You may say: bro, just don’t write bad code! But unfortunately, while everyone tries to do their best, the reality is not like that. Not everyone knows how Jetpa...