April 28, 2020
Gleanings
- I have baked enough over the past 40 years to know that one can use less yeast if one is willing to wait
- Even as I keep teaching my students that stories need conflict, I’ve grown perplexed about the ethics of abusing characters to drive a narrative arc.
- I am interested in the value of a mistake. If the character knew how to pronounce that word from the beginning, there wouldn’t be a story.
- Our world is changing drastically, but we don’t know what it will look like, which means there is room for us all to imagine.
- It’s more a matter of learning to live with the debris and planting what is hearty instead of wishing for what we can’t have.
- We first met somewhere on Cape Breton, remember?
- I mean, shouldn’t you stock the stuff you need for what you’ll want to cook and not some arbitrary list from a lady who loves Triscuits?
- I’m always inspired by people who make something out of discards, remnants and broken pieces
- It’s a lot to process, as is said, and it really freaking is. But we can hold it. We can, we do.
- Mondays are for Melancholy
- From the famous first line: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself” to the bittersweet ending, it’s a story told like the alighting of a butterfly on different consciousnesses as the narrator’s eye sweeps over London.
- every first draft is a success because by definition, its only job is to exist
- If Cineplex collapses, I honestly don’t know. But gawd, I need to go to a movie.
