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...
by Jan Bear | Dec 10, 2003 | Uncategorized
Timepiece I’m reading this one on CD, and at nearly a quarter of the way through, it makes my teeth hurt. I picked it up at the library because the title intrigued me, as well as the cover quote that undertakers and clockmakers know more about life than most...
by Jan Bear | Dec 8, 2003 | Uncategorized
The Courage to Create Rollo May takes on the psychological and social aspects of the artistic process in The Courage to Create. This is a brief rundown of the points that struck a chord with me. He begins by defining courage, and he points out a paradox of courage:...
by Jan Bear | Dec 7, 2003 | Uncategorized
More about the defining moment: An online writing buddy wrote to discuss the idea. She said she has read some novels with no defining moment, and she thinks too many would be messy nd eventually unbelievable or boring. “As for a short story,” she...