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…
I have been thinking more about AI art recently. And, no, my stance hasn’t really changed on it. I still think artificial intelligence takes too much away from both the creator and the audience; I still think art is only art when and if it focuses on the human condition, communication, and connection (and obviously…
A cozy read…if you ignore all the traumatizing stuff that happens in-between. A story I read a long time ago, and one I think I will remember a little better after this second time around.
There’s a certain kind of power that comes with being a creative. It’s not power in a physical sense of the word, but one might almost say it’s like magic. Painters, for example, take a bunch of colorful paste and transform it into a recognizable scene; writers create entire worlds just through words on a…
Quite often, we find ourselves unable to bring a scene to a fitting conclusion. When this problem arises, try following this piece of advice that is normally applied to the story as a whole—but on a smaller scale: bring the scene full circle. If your character got upset and ran off from their friends in…