by BWW Support | Jul 28, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
M is for Mantra My mantra is: This is the way it is. Radical acceptance. Not an easy stance. This is the way it is. This is the way it is. The coffee table is covered in graphic novels. The dinner table is covered in crumbs. The kitchen is half-clean and the windows...
by BWW Support | Jul 21, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
“To be an artist means never to avert your eyes.” Akira Kurosawa This is quite a commitment. To stay awake and aware. To look when perhaps you might prefer to look away. That social gesture, also a gesture of self-preservation, to avert the eyes, glance away, not see....
by BWW Support | Jul 14, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Writing is a physical activity, not only in the small, all-important motion of your hands. For you can dictate your writing: Henry James dictated to a secretary; it’s easier these days, when you can dictate into your phone. But not only there, either, in your breath,...
by BWW Support | Jul 7, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
The movement of your story comes from the way you stack your images, whose creation we discussed in I is for Imagery. Readers–whIch is to say, human beings–create story the ways kids play with blocks. Give a reader two images and she’ll find a way to...
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