by Joe Bunting |
How do you write descriptively while also keeping the reader engaged? Try personification. Personification is a literary device used to describe a non-human thing as having human characteristics. Here is how reader Adriana Willey used personification in response to...
by Joe Bunting |
There are two things that work, you can be overwhelmingly honest. Or you can create some kind of persona to write from. It's the difference between Joni Mitchell (or Jewel or even someone like Colby Caillat) and Lady Gaga. Joni was being honest. Lady Gaga is a...
by Joe Bunting |
“An Artist,” said Ian Cron, “who has not done their ‘work' will be doomed to be sentimental.” Sentimental. 2. (of a work of literature, music, or art) Dealing with feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way. We all can...
by Joe Bunting |
“Making Apocalypse Now, Coppola famously shot over two hundred and thirty hours of film, unheard of at the time,” says Will Boast. Which is why you write write write. Load your page up with words (some of which you will never use). You will cut them out later. You...
by Joe Bunting |
Someday I will write an Experimenters Manifesto. We need more people who take risks to try something new. On Saturdays, we at the Write Practice experiment. We break rules because rules, in the realm of writing, do not exist. The best we get is best practices, and...
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...
