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Telling the Truth About our Experiences as a Body

Guest post on my other blog click link for entire article: http://livingmetaphors.blogspot.com/ On Virgina Woolfe's now famous quote about killing the angel in the house, as response to a poem/ poet of her time: These were two of the adventures of my professional life. The first—killing the Angel in the House—I think I solved. She died. But the second, telling the truth about my own experiences as a body, I do not think I solved. I doubt that any woman has solved it yet. The obstacles against her are still immensely powerful—and yet they are very difficult to define. Outwardly, what is simpler than to write books? Outwardly, what obstacles are there for a woman rather than for a man? Inwardly, I think, the case is very different; she has still many ghosts to fight, many prejudices to overcome. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. Posted by Brandon

Oscar Nominated Writer-Producer-Director shares his tips with young writers...

REPUBLISHED LINKS AND CONTENT WITH PERMISSION ABOVE ALL, HAPPY WRITING, JJ Oscar nominated Writer-Producer-Director, Pen Densham (Trilogy Entertainment) wants to share his latest screenwriting blog post with you, below! “One thing I know for sure; without writers, we in the entertainment business are aimless wanderers looking for a place to be. My thanks to Pen for this inspirational book.” Morgan Freeman Academy Award-winning Actor “As a director, I cannot achieve my goals without the help of creative and courageous writers. Pen’s book is unique in that it addresses the entire landscape of movie writing as a career, and most especially encourages artists who write from the heart and strive for originality.” Ron Howard Director / Producer / Writer / Actor http://www.ridingthealligator.com  Pen’s 10 Secrets to Writing Success! 1. Write from your heart! As a writer, trust your instinctual creativity and write from your pas

Cinematic Writing - Island Fiction

A mark of the Island Fiction series and all of its six titles, is the cinematic quality of the writing. Crafting the stories scene by scene with attention to the speed activating quality of verbs, short sentences and moving the story  forward by using timelines that  use flashbacks discerningly, the authors have teen readers asking, "When is the movie for this one coming out?" Although relatively new and never seen before in our markets, Island Fiction hits the mark in capturing that familiar contemporary feel of book and movie tie-in. Today's reluctant reader is still a consumer of stories through TV, Film and animation. As writers we can allow this understanding to motivate what we write and how. To write in a cinematic way was the conscious directive of our rewriting process. In his book trailer, Jamaican author Michael Holgate illustrates the intensity and mystery of his award winning book Night of the Inidgo; (Moonbeam silver medal for teen s