Writing Wednesdays
We’ve been talking about Wilderness Passages in our individual lives. Today let’s consider a collective passage.
Read MoreHere’s a storytelling principle I use sometimes when I’m trying to evaluate an idea or a story I’m working on.
Read MoreHere’s a short section from my new memoir, Govt Cheese:
Read MoreWe spoke in an earlier post about “reference points” and their centrality to the experience of a Wilderness Passage.
Read More[The following is a post from a couple of years ago that just stuck in my head, Let’s bring it back today as a “blast from the past” … ]
Read MoreDavid Baldacci is the mega-million bestselling author of Absolute Power, The 6:20 Man, Simply Lies, and many more. Here is his All Is Lost Moment and Epiphanal Moment (my interpretation, not his) derived extremely loosely from his MasterClass on Mystery and Thriller Writing (which I highly recommend.)
Read MoreI was working on the screenplay for the Steven Seagal movie, Above the Law. I forget who first said this—maybe Steve, maybe the director Andy Davis—but someone piped up, “We need a ‘Turn in your badge and gun’ scene.”
Read MoreLet me take a break from our Wilderness Passage posts to say a quick thank-you to everyone who ordered a signed copy of Govt Cheese: A Memoir. We’ve sent out twelve hundred so far, all packed by hand and trundled to the UPS store (actually a bunch of stores), in the VIP pack pictured below.
Read MoreDoes escape from our personal Wilderness always entail a gruesome All Is Lost Moment? Must we hit bottom before we can come back up?
Read MoreOne of the primary characteristics of any “passage through the wilderness” is the excruciating belief/certainty, while we’re in it, that it will never end. We have been given a life sentence, we believe, without possibility of parole.
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