In the post on Medium, I open up about how grief has both stalled and spurred my creative process as I’m writing a novel steeped in family history about a haunted reformatory in my fictitious town of Gracetown, Florida. I have been writing past my grief, and you can too. READ my Me...
By opting not to take the case, the high court effectively endorsed a lower court’s decision that a Colorado company that posts ratings of health plans on the Internet could be sued for defamation in a Washington court. The lower court ruling is one of several that makes it easier for pl...
Breaking Bad is far more than a crime drama. It’s an artistic statement of arrogance and guilt and when combined how they eat a person alive. It’s a commentary on the evils of the world and how they lurk around every corner and sometimes even within us. It’s about escapism, greed,...
Know artistic concepts. I don't mean to be an art expert, but it is necessary to have a general knowledge of art, especially styles and techniques. Study and learn all the parameters, such as lighting, types of cameras, color palettes, dimensionality and more. Know how to describe objects...
Several times on this trip, like the ones that preceded it, we walked farther than we’d intended. One day early in our visit to London we tracked more than 18,000 steps (including eleven flights of stairs). By the time we got off the underground at the station near our hotel that ...
One of the reasons writing poetry is so difficult is that you set your own standards. Most acts of artistic creation have no endgame, and poetry is no exception. Long after finishing the first draft of a sonnet, a terse villanelle, or a free verse riff on the pleasures of living, you...
However, science has only the one task - cognitive research. But criticism has other purposes. Among them, the most important are assessment (judgment about the quality of the work under consideration) and aesthetic review - the expressing of certain views on artistic properties of the subject of...
there are definitely aspects I wish I would have spent some more time on. There is an entire monologue section missing from the trailer which I can pass off as an artistic decision, but the truth is that I only realized I hadn’t recreated/found a replacement for it after the video was...
It’s nice to focus on the reasons you and your book are worth writing about!! Also, thank-you for inviting us to share our own bios! This is the one that appears on the back of my book.There are things I’d tweak, but I still like it because it truly does represent me. “...
“When mastery is the goal, spending an exorbitant number of hours in one sitting will likely lead to burnout. We don’t go to the gym expecting to put on 20 pounds of muscle in a single, day-long workout. Instead, we do several short workouts a week, spread out over months.” ...