I was once part of a group of readers who would critique play submissions with the goal of narrowing them down to five pieces that would eventually be performed. During one of our sessions, a fellow reader scoffed at the “predictability” of one particular play. Now, I was there to judge the plays, not the…
If you’re a writer, or even someone who took one creative writing class on a whim back in college, you’ve no doubt heard the question arise at some point: are you a plotter, or a pantser? Even within creative communities we’ve found the need to split ourselves into categories, and the way that writers write…
A very unique take on the myth of King Arthur and the Round Table. Filled with fun, diverse characters and relationships–but maybe not the smoothest story line.
A brief opening to a short story / possible novella that I’ve been keeping on the back burner for a while. As of this post, the story is nearly forty pages long, and I’m estimating that I’m about two thirds of the way done. What I have here is very very rough, and is definitely subject to change as the story shapes itself a little more. Keep an eye out for “Section II” somewhere down the line…
It happens to all writers at some point: we’re on a roll, the words are flowing from our mind like some kind of nice, flowy thing; we start to fall in love with our story all over again. And then we hit it: a lull. We know we want to get from beginning to end,…