Dreams are illustrations. . .from the book your soul is writing about you. ~ Marsha Norman
My Dream, My Book
Carolyn Healy
Here was my dream. I would write a book that would change the world. It would be about personal narrative, the story that each of us tells about our own life. For a while there, the working title was If Your Life Was a Movie, Would You Go to See It?
“No, too trivial,” said the writing teacher. “This is an important topic.”
Second working title: What’s Your Story? How the Story You Tell about Yourself Makes All the Difference.
“No,” said the writing teacher, “Wordy and repetitive.”
Time for a new writing teacher. MORE . . . ________________________________________________________
Gatekeepers
Ellie Searl
They guard the entrance to creativity, allowing the select few—those who pass muster—to enter. Not the riff raff. Not the wannabees who try to worm through the slats, those sad, misguided dilettantes who think their work shows merit. They’re gatekeepers, and they prevent the unskilled culture-defacers from assailing the public with crap.
If it weren’t for that cadre of connoisseurs assessing, ranking, and restocking the Aesthetic Empire, the eating, viewing, and reading public wouldn’t know what to eat, view, or read. MORE . . .
