First off, wow, In the Biz was a hit. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, and applauding Suzanne’s responses. I hope some of our new guests stick around. Café Lopez has a lot to share in the days/months/years ahead A couple of days ago, I came across a little tidbit about one of my favorite [...]
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Truth really is Stranger than Fiction
Posted in On Creativity, tagged A Light in August, apocryphal, Cafe Lopez, epiphany, Ghosts dont cry, In the Biz, plausible, Puerto Rico, symbolic role, The Dead Don't Cry, theme, unlikeliest of places, Volver, Wikipedia, William Faulkner on July 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
What’s your book about? *UPDATED*
Posted in On Creativity on June 5, 2010 | 17 Comments »
First off, let me thank everyone for their advice. I may not have won the contest, but the lessons I’ve learned in the process have been nothing short of inspiring. That said, I’ve come up with two new single sentence doozies. The first is my response to the “What’s your book about?” question, and the [...]
In the Name of Love
Posted in On Creativity, On Inspiration, tagged crazy, devotion, divine channel, hopeless, Korean film, nirvana, passion, perfection, Ping Pong, Running on May 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »
If you’ve ever spoken to someone who is passionate about running, you would know that their devotion can sometimes border on fanatical. I know, because I was once one of them. A runner. Not just any, I might add, but a long distance runner, all of whom I’d wager are in fact some kind of [...]
Pass the Gravy
Posted in On Creativity, tagged dark secret, dialogue, Film, gravy, imagination, intuition, novel, novelization, plot, protagonist, qualified to write, screenplay, wordplay, writing on May 7, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I have a deep, dark secret that I’m going to share with you: I’ve watched many, many more movies than I’ve read books. The sacred rule is that writers must read – voraciously – and in so doing I’ve broken that rule. Often. More often than not, in fact. Which raises the obvious question: am [...]
Be Kind to Your Muse
Posted in On Creativity, tagged brainstorm, creativity, inspiration, Muse, whimsy on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A couple of years ago, I did some free-lance work for a design company. Basic advertorial stuff. It paid well at the cost of being tortuously dull. As I was getting the details for the assignment, I somehow got sucked into a corporate brainstorming session for an unrelated project. To this day, my inner muse [...]
