Is That Even A Joke? It’s All About the Subtext
carriejonesbooks So, um, a lot of the time during the podcast Shaun will say something that makes Carrie have these huge pauses because she’s reading the subtext underneath what he’s saying.…
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Writers, Go With Your Gut and Bring Out the Big Emotion
A lot of the times that Carrie works with writers, she notices that they are pulling back from the emotion that is happening in the story. Instead of allowing the…
Friday Writing Life – Save Yourself Today
“The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself,” said E.E. Cummings. Unlearn who you are. It’s a tall order because…
Worst Case Scenarios are Bad For Your Heart and Good For Your Writing
Shaun used to call me, “WC,” because he is evil. No. Really. He called me that because I’m always thinking up the worst case scenario for every situation and planning…
Finding Direction Even When Life Seems Full of Failure
Editor Cheryl Klein talked about reading writer Dave Eggers’ interview in Harper Magazine. She talked about it during a time in her life where she felt like she was in…