Author: jack
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Raised by Giants
Raised by GiantsThis week, over at The Confabulator Cafe, I write about how I use what I learn from other writers in my own work. Check out “Raised by Giants” at www.confabulatorcafe.com.
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Spring Resolutions
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy, from Anna Karenina The cold bite of the north wind gives way to the gentle caress of the south. The perpetual scent of cut grass and oncoming rains warms the senses as a reminder that the true New Year is upon us. If…
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Teaching Turkeys to Fly and New Flash Fiction!
Teaching Turkeys to FlyEditing is one of the most time-consuming aspects of a writing career. See what I have to say about how I re-write at The Confabulator Cafe.
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Fundamentals of Beginning Screenwriting
Screenwriting can seem like an intimidating process. The format seems too technical, even the font is odd. Of course, the format and the font are functional, allowing a known pace relationship between screen and script. In general, one page of a screenplay will equal one minute of screen time. I’m not going to spend a…
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Site News – Script Frenzy and FREE FLASH FICTION!
Sometimes, when a piece of fiction gets published, the writer retains the rights after the initial publication. I have decided to make some of that work available on my site, free of charge to my readers. If you look beneath my photo on the right side of your screen, you will see a new page…
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C Is for Cat
C Is for CatI have written a new original flash fiction piece for The Confabulator Cafe. The challenge was to write a piece of under 1000 words based on a picture I was assigned. The picture was selected from Flickr using my last name and my birth date.Please read it at http://www.confabulatorcafe.com/2012/03/c-is-for-cat-flash-fiction/ and thank you…
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Diversify Your Writing Assets
Script Frenzy is coming up next month, giving me an excuse to dust off those screenwriting skills that haven’t seen the light of day for way too long. I’ve noticed that it is not nearly as popular as its NaNoWriMo sibling. I get it. Writing a book is every writer’s dream. It seems so easy…
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Fear, Itself
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” – H.P. Lovecraft I recently read an article on Lit Reactor regarding the lack of fear of the old horror tropes in today’s entertainment. You can find the article here, if you are…
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The Aesthetic Tragedy
Every Monday, I contribute to a collaborative blog on writing. The group features a wide-range of writers. We range from the published and professional, to the up and coming. We are from genres including Fantasy, Horror, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, and even the Mainstream. Our common thread is that we love to write. The Confabulator Cafe…
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On Rejection: They Don’t Know What They Want
“Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it, they reject themselves.” – Charlie Chaplin The writer’s psyche, like that of all artists, is fragile. When you live in a world of emotions, your own feelings have the volume turned up. Sometimes, that can cause an emotional crash, of sorts. Couple that with rejection, which…