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L Is for Lifelong Learning Today I am very happy to share an interview with online writing instructor Christi Craig. Christi and I first met, appropriately enough, online several years ago through a writers’ social network, and when we realized we lived only a few miles from each other, we began to meet in person. …
Beginning April 1, I will blog about the theme of poetry, with 26 posts, from A to Z, in the month of April.
Most writers and other storytellers are familiar with the advice to begin their tale in medias res (in the middle of things), but what, exactly, does that look like?
Andrew Haigh, writer and director of the film 45 Years, shows us in this “Behind the Scenes” video of a scene that occurs five minutes into the film, the first time the two main characters are shown together. As you watch it, ask yourself how the tone and point of view and details would be conveyed with writing.
Last spring I took an online Flash Nonfiction class from Christi Craig, and one of the prompts led to a piece about a ball of string my grandmother kept in her kitchen. Christi and the other participants offered valuable suggestions during revision, and I am happy to say that this month “String Theory” is published in Hippocampus, an online magazine of creative nonfiction.
If you are a writer fascinated by science or a science geek who loves to write, be sure to check out Quantum Shorts 2015, a flash fiction competition for “stories no longer than 1000 words – inspired by the quantum world.”