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...
by BWW Support | Jun 30, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
Part of what brings up resistance to write is that writing asks you to switch to a sensory mode, to track the progress of the world or a scene through sights, smells, tastes, textures and sounds. Collectively, we discuss these as “imagery,” taking the word beyond its...
by BWW Support | Jun 23, 2016 | Practical Alphabet, Uncategorized
When something is a habit, you don’t think about it. You don’t have a conversation with yourself about whether or not to do it each day. It’s routine, nearly automatic. The next right thing. Once you left the drama of, “Will I write? When will I write? How much will I...
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