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.
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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.
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....
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.
Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.
Freud’s Blind Spot by Elisa Albert
Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters.
The Play’s the Thing: Part 2 By Dale Griffiths Stamos
THE PLAYS THE THING Part 2: First Draft Rediscovering Premise By Dale Griffiths Stamos November 2010 Authorlink welcomes award-winning playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos as a regular monthly columnist. "Premise is the one sentence statement...
Nicole Krauss Explores Emotional Meaning of Inheriting Something
n her new novel, Great House, Author Nicole Krauss writes about a looming and inspirational antique desk, passed through different hands over generations and connecting her four narrators. From a poet in Chile to a New York novelist, these characters, like those in Krauss’ last novel, “The History of Love,” tell the story of what it means to inherit something both physical and emotional.
American Assassin by Vince Flynn
American Assassin Vince Flynn Simon & Schuster 10-20-10 Hardcover/448 pages ISBN: 9781416595182 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .excels . . . in action and on the hunt." A thriller with murky beginnings and an ending like a...
