Presque vu XXXI

18th November 2007 with 1 Comment

Writerjenn has some advice for people who would like to write fiction. This is an extract. Follow the link for more.
Why are my bad guys so bad? Were they good once, but were hurt somehow? Can they become good again, or are they past hope? What are their redeeming qualities? What [...]

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Evil? I Don’t Think So.

18th July 2007 with 2 Comments

During the last years our politicians, playing to the lowest common denominator, have stressed the existence of evil in the world and the need to combat it. George Bush gave us the axis of evil; before him Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as the evil empire; and over images of British soldiers being killed [...]

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The writer's secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience. That lovely Turkish saying – to dig a well with a needle – seems to me to have been said with writers in mind. Orhan Pamuk

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