Posts under ‘Experiences with writing’

This is a little belated, but I was thinking back on our afternoon with the Alexander String Quartet and the discussion we had in class about our experience. I kept coming back to the strange parrallels between music and writing. Rhythm is always the first commonality that comes to mind, but as I listened and [...]

I wanted to share this with everyone because I love to read about other artist talking about their craft and lives.   
SOME THOUGHTS ON WRITING
Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes people ask me for help or suggestions about how to write, or how to get published. Keeping in mind that this is all very ephemeral and personal, I will [...]

I just love this quote from Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad. He was an English Philosopher and broadcasting personality. I came across the quote randomly in a google search some time back. I’ve never read any of his books but I don’t need to read them to appreciate this great quote. Whenever I sit down to [...]

After reading Zinsser’s chapter on writing memoir I thought it was a great idea to do it just for yourself and your family. He tells how his father wrote  a memoir and gave it even to his little grandchildren. I think it’s an interesting way on giving your children and grandchildren an idea about what [...]

I’ve been thinking about our next assignment which is due very soon (uh-oh) and about blog posts topics. Finally I decided to blog about Nora Ephron’s “I Feel Bad About My Neck” – a book that I like tremendously – but couldn’t find it. I think I’ve given it to somebody and now it’s gone. [...]

We took turns reading each other our pieces. We felt that presenting them in this way would allow the author to better show how they wanted the writing to sound like and where they wanted to go with it. This in turn allowed the readers to offer more constructive criticism. For instance had something not [...]

When we met on Thursday I think we gave each other a lot of ideas on writing or how we think the other person should change their essays or their style of writing. It was a fun meeting because while talking about someone’s paper all of us would start just nodding, like agreeing with the [...]

As always I find myself hesitant to call anything my “favorite” but in the case of David B. Coe and Frank Herbert I’ll make an exception.  Praises and accolades aside David B. Coe and Frank Herbert are without a doubt the fathers of my love for writing.  Coe lured me with his intricate paintings of [...]

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I’m a HUGE FAN of Creative Screenwriting podcast. Writers are always talking about their craft, how they got started, their big break, first time they got paid for it, rewrites, audience, shopping their material and loads of out stuff.