Category: Casper Rudolph
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The Writer’s High
Read more: The Writer’s High“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” — Red Haircrow 1. ONSET Beginnings are always the hardest. Sitting at your computer, chasing that perfect opening line across your mindscape, searching, constantly searching. In what lair is it hidden? In what vault is…
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Show-Don’t-Tell Is Bullshit!
Read more: Show-Don’t-Tell Is Bullshit!“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” — Ernest Hemingway 1. LIMIT Show-don’t-tell is bullshit. Now, before a lynch mob of angry keyboard warriors attempts to verbally slay me, let’s all calm down and establish a context.
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Meeting The Board: Dorus & Casper
Read more: Meeting The Board: Dorus & CasperWriter’s Block Magazine is proud to present this year’s final editors, Dorus and Casper.
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Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 5: Death of Ideas
Read more: Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 5: Death of Ideas“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we…
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Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 4: Choir of Voices
Read more: Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist – Part 4: Choir of Voices“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.” — Meg Rosoff 0. PREVIOUSLY Hark! David Kleinsteuber recounts…