A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy Simon & Schuster 1-10-11 Hardcover/411 pages ISBN: 978-1439199138 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .thrilling and interesting and satisfying." Solid writing with well-rounded and interesting...
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The Truth About Grief by Ruth Davis Konigsberg
The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss-a personal or national one-we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover from the death of a loved one to a sudden environmental catastrophe or to the trading away of a basketball star. But the stunning fact is that there is no validity to the stages that were proposed by psychiatrist Elisabeth KÜbler-Ross more than forty years ago.
The Sentinel Mage by Emily Gee
Her magic may be the only thing that can save a princeand the Seven Kingdoms. In a distant corner of the Seven Kingdoms, an ancient curse festers and grows, consuming everything in its path. Only one man can break it: Harkeld of Osgaard, a prince with mage’s blood in his veins.
THE PLAY’S THE THING: Part 3: Rewriting On Your Own
With the new year I am beginning Part III of my series on the nuts and bolts of playwriting, inception to production. Part III will focus on the rewriting process. Remember as in all forms of writing, plays are not written, they are rewritten. I cannot stress enough the importance of that statement. There are, in reality, two different parts of the rewriting process, the private and the public.
Inhabiting a Work of Prose
Inhabiting a Work of Prose by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro January 2011 ". . .live inside the novel for both the writer and the reader." —Shapiro In reviews on the back of a jacket, aside from “lucid,” and “scintillating,” I...
American Rose by Karen Abbott
Rose Louise, known to the world as Gypsy Rose Lee, was an enigma: a beautiful woman with an ever changing story who had more secrets hidden up her sleeve than a magician. Her history changed as often as she changed her gloves and, like the tease she was, she obscured more with each retelling. Gypsy Rose Lee was intelligent, frustrating, talented, gifted and damaged.
THE PLAYS THE THING: Part 2 By Dale Griffiths Stamos
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Crisis, Climax and Resolution By Dale Griffiths Stamos December 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. ". . . called the 'obligatory...
Feelings First
FEELINGS FIRST by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro December 2010 "Your best writing will arise from feelings." —Shapiro A daily writing practice is an important commitment to be a writer. You can’t hang out indefinitely and wait for inspiration to come....
THE PLAY’S THE THING: Crisis, Climax and Resolution
In past columns, I have mentioned the terms Climax and Resolution. I would like to explore these story elements in more detail along with Crisis, another important element. In my column on Rising Action, I explained how each scene builds incrementally and logically to a climactic scene. That scene, often called the obligatory scene is essential to good playwriting.
Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci
A woman sits on a bench napping and then chatting on her cell phone. An older man in a suit stoops to read the inscription on a statue. An overweight man in jogging clothes, but too fat to jog, wanders into the park. Oliver Stone watches it all until bullets rake the park after the older man and the woman leave and the overweight jogger jumps into a hole and explodes.
