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Posted on December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 146

This week’s #ThoughtfulThursday comes from Patricia Twomey Ryan’s short memoir piece ‘Oatmeal’. 
Posted on December 22, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 145

This week, we’re making #ThoughtfulThursday festive (and tasty) with this passage from Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Happy Holidays!
Posted on December 15, 2022

Thoughtful Thursday, Episode 144

In this week’s #ThoughtfulThursday, Alex shares a passage from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel ‘The Mistress of Spices.’

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Congratulations to Gotham alum, Nick Fuller Googin Congratulations to Gotham alum, Nick Fuller Googins, and his recent debut novel "The Great Transition." ! You can check out the link in our bio to read more about Nick's Gotham journey.
"Perhaps because of my long history as a dancer, a "Perhaps because of my long history as a dancer, actress and writer, rejection is something with which I am all too familiar. . . . for every accomplishment there were twenty rejections. A dance company thought my style was incompatible with theirs. A casting director found me lacking. An editor considered my writing too fanciful, or too plain, too abstract or too concrete. I could go on for hours. In the end, though, only one attitude enabled me to move ahead. That attitude said, ‘Rejection can simply mean redirection.’"   –Maya Angelou, as told to Tavis Smiley and recorded in TIME, 2015   #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #bookstagram #authorlife #writinglife
Whether you seek to write comedy, drama, or someth Whether you seek to write comedy, drama, or something in between, we’ll show you how to write TV episodes that might, someday, get everybody buzzing. . Check out the link in our bio to learn more and sign up for an upcoming class.
Longer novels go well with longer journeys. Here a Longer novels go well with longer journeys. Here are three great choices: Stephen King’s Needful Things, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina where you get every point of view including that of a character’s dog!   Enjoy!!!   #bookstagram #booklover #readersofinstagram
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Not surprisingly, Animal Farm, first published in Not surprisingly, Animal Farm, first published in 1945, also had to overcome political headwinds. In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” Orwell said, “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.”   #writerlife #authorlife #writinglife #georgeorwell
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Movies, TV, plays... In this class, you’ll learn Movies, TV, plays... In this class, you’ll learn techniques fundamental to all forms of scriptwriting. It’s a sampler platter, with no pressure to work on a specific project or settle on which type of scriptwriting you prefer. . Check out the link in our bio to learn more.
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1️⃣ Laugh at your rejections. 2️⃣ Learn 1️⃣ Laugh at your rejections. 2️⃣ Learn from your rejections. 3️⃣ Always have a new project underway, something that will give you hope no matter how many rejections come your way for the previous project.   #writerlife #authorlife #writinglife
Do you enjoy sharing your viewpoints? What do you Do you enjoy sharing your viewpoints? What do you think of, say, global warming or the latest water-cooler TV show or the forgotten value of handkerchiefs? . Whatever you have to say, we’ll show you how to say it effectively and compellingly. . Check out the link in our bio to learn more about our Essay & Opinion Writing classes coming up on Zoom and Online.
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This week, we're highlighting author Grace Cho and This week, we're highlighting author Grace Cho and her memoir, "Tastes Like War," which was developed in part in a Gotham writing class. . Check out the link in our bio to read all about Grace's Gotham journey.
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 basics of creative writing: 1️⃣ Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. . 2️⃣ Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. . 3️⃣ Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. . 4️⃣ Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. . 5️⃣ Start as close to the end as possible. . 6️⃣ Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of. . 7️⃣ Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. . 8️⃣ Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. . Which one's your favorite? #writersofinstagram #creativewriting #writingadvice #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutquote
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(500) Days of Summer written by Scott Neustadter a (500) Days of Summer written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.  Notice that even the shooting script, i.e. the script with the last edits, differs from what ends up on screen. There’s a lot to learn from reading scripts and understanding what ultimately becomes a movie.   #screenwriting #screenwritingtips #screenwriters #screenwritersofinstagram #500daysofsummer
Can you guess which famous writer wrote this chill Can you guess which famous writer wrote this chilling description of summer and childhood. The answer is George R.R. Martin in A Game of Thrones.    #bookstagram #bookworm #booklover #gameofthrones #georgerrmartin
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Here are three common plot mistakes and lessons fo Here are three common plot mistakes and lessons for how to avoid them from Ron Howard’s outstanding film Apollo 13.   #plotstructure #writingtips #adviceforwriters #writingadvice #igwriters
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