The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... B….

We are the yearning creatures of this planet..

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves..

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle..

Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for….

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In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless co….

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we wa….

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing..