Many long years ago, I was granted a writer retreat at the Mary Anderson Center. They no longer have a poet/writer retreat, but they do have an artist/potter one. I took a printout of my fantasy trilogy, SAGE. I had taken it apart and cobbled…
Category: Writing
When somebody is overwhelmed a a multitude of small things, they sometimes say, “It’s like being nibbled to death by ducks.” Well, say each detail of your story is a duck. The kind of car your main character drives is a duck. How their house…
I first heard the phrase “breaking open the moment” at a Green River Writers‘ Retreat. –If you ever get a chance to go to one of their retreats or workshops, GO! You know how you’re reading a book and something happens and then it’s gone,…