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Looking-Glass Girl: Alice Finds Herself in 1871
Thought I’d post a bit of my work-in-progress, Looking-Glass Girl. In this scene, my protagonist, Alice, first meets Suzanne Manet, wife of Edouard Manet.
Letting Your Character Teach You How to Act
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Want real authenticity with your characters? Walk through the door of your story:
Get to the emotion-point of right before the scene begins.
What do Murder Duck and Impressionist Berthe Morisot Have to do with Plot?
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Fifty Days in France #1 String Theory
It was my first trip abroad in 32 years. For two months I wandered solo from Paris to the French countryside and attempted time-travel. In my computer was a half-completed novel called Looking Glass Girl.
An Interview with Janet Lee Carey on Deep Characterization
Many people have been asking me what Deep Characterization is. I know what it is to me, but I wanted to share some of Janet Lee Carey’s thoughts on her Deep Characterization practice,
The Writer as Actor: …aaannnd ACTION
“Attached to the wall below me was a ladder. It must have been for building maintenance people to do whatever it is they do.
The Writer as Actor: On Location
Deep Characterization Exercise #1 Being Two Places at Once
The purple mass looked for a moment like a plump of organ pipes, then like a stack of rolls of cloth set up on end,
The Writer as Actor: Losing and Finding
The expression “to lose yourself” in the part or in the performance, which has so often been used by great artists in the theater,
Remembering Madeleine
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
–Madeleine L’Engle
I was ten when my librarian grandmother pulled from her suitcase a book called A Wrinkle in Time.