![]() ![]() I was totally and hopelessly blocked…until a song-writer friend gave me a copy of Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I just sat at the computer and stared at it in disbelief as I read over and over the last words on the screen describing when she and I were heading down the Baja in our hot pink sailboat being gifted by all the fishermen with so much lobster and shrimp that we were eating it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At first, I was horrified, then grief-stricken, then totally lost, then angry…and I couldn’t write. #RULE 1 OF STORYWRITING DRIVERS#They didn’t even give him an alcohol test because the state troopers said, “Well, he’s an officer of the law and it’s not necessary.” Thank goodness for the coroner who felt justice wasn’t being done and applied an 1800s law that allowed for a Coroner’s Hearing and lots of the drivers were called to testify, all saying the jerk was drunk. She had just stepped out of her car to light a cigarette when the drunk came racing down the shoulder - he was on vacation and didn’t want to have to wait his turn in the backed up traffic. She was stopped in a long line of traffic on Interstate 80 because of an accident ahead. I was having a blast writing about all the adventures.Īnd then, I was stopped short one night at 1:32AM when the phone rang and her father was calling from Philadelphia to tell me while she was on Spring break from Penn State, Sandi had been run over and killed by a drunk off-duty policeman. This is SO true! Back in 1996, I was joyfully spending hours at a time writing The Great American Novel about the 7 years I spent sailing mostly alone or at times with my teenaged daughter when she was either on break from college or didn’t like the job she had. But in writing the story forget the public.” If you can’t write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. ![]() The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. “I’ll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. ![]() Many writers wonder what the secret of short-story writing was for all those who have successfully written them. ![]()
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