Why do so many of us gush about Friday Night Lights, even though the vast majority of television viewers don’t know what they’re missing? It’s not the football, Lord knows — how many last-minute wins are there in that sport anyway? (Cardinal fans everywhere are weeping, I know. Sorry…) And it can’t just be us Austinites, although it’s fun to live in a town where a show is being filmed and the cast can be Read more…
I’m sure this has happened to you. You get all fired up about a new writing project and you write like blazes for an hour, or two. The words flow on the page. You feel like you are channeling the story, not creating it. It’s so easy. Ah, you say, this is fun! This is easy. This is what it means to be a writer. So you save your work, and when you come back to Read more…
(Note: I loved this scene, which was one of the first ones I wrote for Red Gold Bridge. I felt like it did a lot of great story work. It showed where Kate was after Gordath Wood and the kind of person she had become. The problem was, it distracted from the story arc and weighted the sequel too much toward Kate and away from the rest of the characters. And so it had to Read more…