Sunday night I watched Scott Pelley interview director Christopher Nolan on 60 Minutes about The Odyssey that opens on July 17. At one point Pelley considers the grandiose epic movies and complex storylines Nolan’s known for, and the sheer number of people involved to bring them into reality. The following exchange really stood out to […]
For anyone who’s spent a lot of time here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, you’re familiar with pluff mud. It’s the thick, organic sludge of the salt marsh, the structure of the serpentine waterways that make our part of the coast so unique. (It’s also how we could tell from the opening scenes of
There’s a particular kind of stuck that writers don’t talk about enough. Not writer’s block, which is a different beast entirely… and we writers talk about that. All. The. Time. I’m referring to the feeling you get when you know something’s not working. The pacing drags in scene seven. And scene nine. And all of
I have a 112,000-word discovery draft sitting on my desk, and I’ll be honest with you — the thought of revising it is a little terrifying. I know what needs work. That’s not what terrifies me. I keep asking myself the questions that make any writer spiral: What if there are too many changes? What
“Something came up.” “I had to put out a fire.” How many times have you said that as a reason for not getting to your to-do list? If I had a nickel for every time those words have come out of my mouth… It’s the same for your creative project, too. You know, that writing
