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Open Up.

June 2, 2010

The irony here is I have no good opening for this post.  I’ve been thinking about this one for a couple of days and realized a few things.  One is that outside of screenplays, where the first ten pages are of vital importance, the writers I hang out with and I haven’t talked much about the [...]

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Six short stories about a “gasket”

May 16, 2010

As part of our tinkering with this blog and the content, we’re next going to be each doing a short piece derived from the word “gasket”.  The word was Finn’s suggestion, so we’re running with it! This exercise is something we do in our writing group to keep us writing when we hit slumps. The [...]

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Fighting your fears to build good ideas

May 9, 2010

This past week and next we’re all writing about some aspect of ideas on this blog, and I’m going to take my shot at three fears that I face around ideas. My ideas aren’t very original! This might be the most common fear based on discussions I have with other writers. I have an idea, [...]

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The Great Percolator

May 5, 2010

Where do I get my ideas?  I may have to cheat a little bit here and make a distinction between getting ideas and getting the story.  The ideas are easy enough if you stay open to them.  Take a bus ride and watch everyone that gets on.  In a half hour you’ll probably see at [...]

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By Jove, Holmes, you’re an action hero!

December 30, 2009

I understand why Hollywood turns to established stories and mangles them, but it still makes me sad. It’s a fact of life, like old age and reality television, but that doesn’t make it any more pleasant. The first motivation comes from the Safety of the Known. A story like Sherlock Holmes has stood up to [...]

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