THE risk of failure can often hang over our heads when we are trying to accomplish something.
Failing Your Way to Success
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
How Do You Get Ideas?
THE creative process often defies explanation. For some, it seems to come naturally. For others, it’s a process that requires a great deal of thinking and tinkering.
America’s First Train Robbery
ON the night of May 5, 1865, a band of guerrillas wrote a new chapter in American history by staging the first-ever train robbery in the United States.
You Can’t Escape Commercials No Matter Where
GOING to the movies these days isn’t much different than watching TV–except it’s far more expensive. And there’s the parking, of course. And the snacks.
Everyone Can Write; Here’s How
Greatest American Short Story?
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” has been labeled as the greatest American short story–at least according to writer Kurt Vonnegut.
Time Travel Through Fiction
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A 21st century frame-of-reference ranks, in my opinion, as the most difficult obstacle in writing novels with historical settings.
Ripping Off Talent a No-No
Writing Untidy Endings
WRITING fiction is difficult, under any circumstances and for a variety of reasons. Novels, for example, require a commitment unlike any other. The story landscape is so broad that the writer must decide what to include–or exclude–based on a vast array of choices.