General

Like so many people in his situation, Walter realized that every day of life, good or bad, is a wonderful gift. It is like an immense punch-card, each day leaving our life-cards a day closer to the time when all the punches are gone.

The idea of the Four Temperaments as personality types can be traced back to Persia and Mesopotamia, but it was Hippocrates (660 B.C.) who used the human temperaments to diagnose an imbalance in his medical patients.

He recognized the smell of fresh-cut grass. It came to him; those shit-ass blockers let him get taken down. Then he sunk into a chill twilight again. The next time he came to, the prickle of the coppery blood.

At the same time, her daughter Abby started virtual learning. A super-smart girl, my niece figured out she could hit “submit” for an assignment without attaching any work, and her mom would never know.

I suggest, instead of chasing the daily word count, try to find one little teensy bit of truth in your writing. Maybe you realized something about your genre. Maybe you found out something new about your Main Character.

As a woman in my thirties, I had found a mate, but decided I wanted a different mate, so I started over with a new mate. We decided we wanted a family, and when that goal proved elusive, we adopted two babies.

I’ve begun to challenge myself at this late date. Maybe I’ve been wrong all this time. This week, I did battle with my nemesis Dropbox. When I heard from a client for the third time about a lame link, I wanted to give up

In the first act of Casablanca, screenwriting twin geniuses Julius and Philip Epstein do a masterful job of setting the stage with an enormous amount of necessary exposition. (PLOT) The writers establish

Workshopping Act IIb this week of “Wild,” I noticed that her Epiphany is delayed until the very end of Act III. All of Act IIb concerns itself with the Dark Night of the Soul. Cheryl’s mother dies. Cheryl gets addicted to heroin.