"William Faulkner’s conviction that the writer’s duty is "to help man endure by lifting his heart" comes to mind -- storytelling is still literature’s greatest duty." Susan Sontag, Sontag on …
7 story start tips : Write Monday
What type of story do you want to tell? I can think of dozens of types of stories, mythical, cultural folktales, fairytales, cautionary fables, historical or generational stories. Yet most stories …
Clever story hints from Shakespeare
Story hints “The point of view, or narrative mode, Shakespeare uses in his plays, like most plays, is the third person objective view point. We know that plays are narrated in third person because we …
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Write Monday: Stories Must Have Legs
See the bones, see the selfies On my first and only visit to Washington D.C., a big part of my day I devoted to learning mode on human and mammalian evolution. My spouse and I even took a turn into …
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