by marissa | Sep 7, 2013 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
David Foster Wallace, on how television can be great for writers… First, television does a lot of our predatory human research for us. American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on. But...
by marissa | Sep 4, 2013 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
The people who master an art like storytelling are not aliens with freakish talents and powers; they’re just the people who care the most. It takes a massive amount of self-discipline and faith to devote years and years to getting incrementally better at a...
by marissa | Oct 3, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
I was reading Orson Scott Card’s How to Write Science and Fiction and Fantasy with my cup of coffee today, and this made me think: “I like to think that the difference between storytellers and non-storytellers is that we storytellers, like fishermen, are...
by marissa | Aug 19, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
Beautiful TED talk by Bill Harley on how storytelling is our way of understanding the world, and how stories allow us to feel safe enough to look at life because they are not about us and yet they are definitely about us. “Story is how we are reminded and how we...
by marissa | Jun 6, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas)
I wasn’t going to dance in the Ray Bradbury parade because, to be honest, I’ve read far more of his writing advice than his fiction and there are already loads of way smarter people talking about him, but this interview is too good not to share. God he had...
