In 1889 Anton Chekhov wrote this in his letter to a friend: “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it”.
Indeed, if something is not used in the story, it should be thrown out.… Read the rest
Film and Writing: A Dangerous Method
Still of Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method – © 2011 – Sony Pictures Classics
In a recent David Cronenberg’s film A Dangerous method Keira Knightley portrays a rich Russian Jewish girl receiving a treatment at a mental health clinic in Switzerland.… Read the rest
Procrastination: know your enemy
Now I’m telling you if I can be considered an expert in something not linked to my job that would be procrastination. I love coming up with elaborate ways how not to do things and postpone them until accomplishing those things becomes meaningless.… Read the rest
Wisdom of the Writerdom: Undercooked novels don’t taste as good as rare steak.
By FotoosVanRobin from Netherlands (Reindeer steak) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Impatience is one of the things that keep causing problems for me. I want everything and now. But the more I live and learn the more I think that I need a better preparation in everything. … Read the rest
The Science of Magic
Is it possible that Merlin was a real man practising wizardry? To me, Anything is possible. At least, in our imagination or in our dreams.
In the real world, however, this assumption may not be true, because to have a world in first place certain physical laws have to come into play, otherwise it may turn into a total chaos.… Read the rest
Literary versus commercial fiction: are you on the borderline?
Ulysses or Sherlock? Vast amount of writing blogs give advice to newbies on how to write commercial fiction. This type of text, I call it text not literature, has a primary goal to SELL. To achieve that, it needs to entertain.… Read the rest
Ten Roads to Hell or why quick advice backfires
I often come across blog posts such as 50 ways to write a bestseller or 20 signs of great epilogue or A hundred ideas of how to kill your protagonist. To me they look like No ways of coming up with an interesting idea or Five cheap tricks to increase your blog following.… Read the rest