Stories are made of scenes, but scenes aren’t just a way to get from A-C, each scene is a story with its own beginning, middle and end, and its own emotional arc.
– J. Michael Straczynski
Month: June 2022
haiku 575
home after midnight –
raccoon ahead of me
on the sidewalk
Quotable 456
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
– Chuck Wendig
haiku 574
storms dive south
much-needed rain
goes with them
Quotable 455
Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming, in thinking not writing.
– Joyce Carol Oates
haiku 573
spring dawn –
bloody-minded chirping
rises
Quotable 454
If you have several ways you can take a situation, and you pick the one that cheats the characters, the audience, and common sense, you need to pick again.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
haiku 572
Mother’s Day –
she can’t
read her cards
Quotable 453
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
– Oscar Wilde