by Jan Bear | Dec 16, 2003 | Uncategorized
Of Mice and Men A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the...
by Jan Bear | Dec 15, 2003 | Uncategorized
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting My copy of Story by Robert McKee ard today. I’ve been flipping through it and smelling the pages (is there a writer in the world who doesn’t love the smell of paper, ink and spine...
by Jan Bear | Dec 14, 2003 | Uncategorized
How to Write a Damn Good Novel – Books > Fiction After months of plotting and arranging scenes and rearranging scenes and pulling my hair because I’m not sure about the motivation and the stakes aren’t high enough and why doesn’t anybody care...
by Jan Bear | Dec 12, 2003 | Uncategorized
Bishop Auxentios of Photiki — The Harry Potter Phenomenon and Orthodox Reactions This is an incisive piece by an Orthodox bishop contrasting the “open, intelligent, and expansive intellectual view advocated by the Church Fathers” to the narrow and...
by Jan Bear | Dec 11, 2003 | Uncategorized
I spent my blog time this evening tinkering with this site. I’ve decided to put in headings, to make topics easier to find in the future, and I found a nifty comment feature to add on. So come tomorrow, I’ll be ready to think about writing again, and not...