the writer (me)
Screenwriting is showing not telling; structure is the presentation of images in such a way an audience are forced to work out the relationship between them.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator’s creativity within us and our lives. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
— Virginia Woolf
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
A page from a working draft of Octavia Butler's novel “Kindred,” with handwritten notes and the novel's original title, circa 1977.