by Joe Bunting |
Since we're talking about story today, why don't we kick it off with one. As you read, see if you can identify the element of storytelling. I walked over to Tommy and slapped him in the face. “Argh!” he said. “Why did you do that?” “You know why,” I said. Some...
by Joe Bunting |
How can you get people to remember your ideas? You spend months, years of your life crafting a book that's going to change the world, you publish it to great acclaim, and then you ask a reader, “What was your favorite part of the book? What did you...
by Joe Bunting |
A friend recently told me about jazz. Jazz musicians, he said, spend years learning the rules of music for one reason: So they know how to break them. While they play, the goal is to create something like a musical graph with a hundred different random points all over...
by Joe Bunting |
I recently started reading James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is, according to the back of my cheap copy, “one of the masterpieces of modern fiction.” The novel is confusing, and if I'm honest with myself, the only thing that kept me going...
by Joe Bunting |
Writers read, but they also listen. Every writer I know loves music as much as or more than they do reading. When I first started writing, I didn't compose blogs or novels or non-fiction books; I wrote songs. The poetry of all those beautiful words sung like pearls on...
